Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>If there is one lesson in software it is that there is no silver bullet. Free >software does many things well, but it is no more a silver bullet than anything >else. Personally, if it would support my laptop, I'd rather use BSD than Linux >anyway. The linux internals really suck. But most people don't care, because >they work just well enough. But don't delude yourself into thinking it's some >magic piece of software beauty. It's a miracle it works at all, really. >End of ramble. Um, last time I checked BSD was a free Unix too. Linux may be no miracle (except, funny enough, it JUST WORKS), but have you seen the internals of commercial software? The shocking part to me is the kind of garbage for which people will pay money through the nose. And in the same breath, people complain about a Leica with a paint chip on it or something like that. If Leicas were like software (to extend a well-worn analogy) then Leicas would fall apart on every fifth exposure, just into a pile of loose springs and gears in your hands. You'd have to pay a licensing fee to use the camera at all, and lots of money just to fix the problems it came with out of the box. Byron.