this is sad
this is sad
Posted Jun 20, 2016 10:36 UTC (Mon) by krake (guest, #55996)In reply to: this is sad by khim
Parent article: Klumpp: A few words about the future of the Limba project
> But if you think that these are popular because it's FOSS then you are sorely mistaken: GNU/Linux is used because it's cheap, not because it's open.
I don't think it can be reduced to being cheap and not being open.
Without it being open it would not have spread beyond desktop as no third party would have been able to adapt it to any other needs.
As far as I can tell being open and collaboratively developed were the major contributing factors to having it spread so widely across the device spectrum and not be confined to the original, single use case.