== Quote from Kagamin (s...@here.lot)'s article > Steven Schveighoffer Wrote: > > Shit, just look at the > > over-abundance of totally crappy open source software versus for-sale > > software. > Who cares about crap if free software is still better than for-sale? > > For-sale software that sucks doesn't last very long. > Lol, I use IE6 at my workplace. MS even can't get rid of it.
IE6 may suck horribly by today's standards, but let's put it in perspective. It was released in 2001. The state of the art improves over time, and in the case of web browsers it improves quickly. It was actually a pretty decent browser for its time. It's just that the people using it now are stuck using it because of some legacy crapware (that probably didn't sell well and may have been developed in-house) that runs on it and hasn't been updated since back when people programmed using a magnetized needle and a steady hand. > > Crappy books don't sell, that's how capitalism works. You seem to have a > > very twisted view on reality. > They sell like hell. Even Hollywood does. What can be crappier than that? And > it gets crappier every second, every sequel, and sells never drop. and they just make more crappier crap because profit is higher when they sell crap for the price of masterpiece. Of course everyone thinks ~60-70% of what Hollywood puts out is crap. The problem is that everyone thinks that about a **different** ~60-70% because different movies cater to different niches. Having a single centralized "this movie is crap" authority is how dictatorship works. Producing movies even if only a minority thinks they're worth watching, as long as that minority can pay enough to make it profitable is how capitalism works.
