Everything Mark is saying in this email is true.
The desperate desire of free software people for wider acceptance is fairly
obvious. It is not something that can possibly happen until the world of free
software figures out that the purpose of software is to do work for humans.
This is currently very poorly understood.
Lots of talented work is being done and yet is effectively unavailable to a
huge number of people because of this problem. Ffmpeg is the best example of
this of which I am aware and it has been like this for decades.
This is a difficult problem to solve in the context of desktop Linux because
desktop Linux is not sufficiently consistent that its usability can ever be
much better than it is now, which is to say, extremely poor. Fixing that
inconsistency will require people to make decisions about how things work, and
impose those decisions on people. Since they will not do this, the problem
cannot be solved.
All of this has been blindingly obvious for a very long time.
I'm not angry, I'm disappointed.
- Phil
On Thursday 19 June 2025 at 13:03:49 BST, Reindl Harald
<h.rei...@thelounge.net> wrote:
Am 19.06.25 um 13:59 schrieb Mark Filipak:
> My file manager and my text editor are both commercial programs. They
> work superbly and are well documented in English, not programmers'
> pigeon English.
then use your file manager and text editor
oh - both can't do complex things
> Codesmiths should not manage projects and they should
> not write user documentation. That's simply because they're not
> qualified for those jobs.
you are not qualified
> FOSS is a failure and it's killed the market for well run projects and
> for well-written applications precisely because everyone needs to make a
> living and you can't make a living writing FOSS. That's a widely held
> opinion, especially among professionals.
proven as nonsense
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