In my experience, an update can easily kill your system - and that happened to me more than once. And since I am not a customer, developers on the other end must not worry about what happens. I mean, nobody owes the user anything. "Fix it yourself, man". And it's fair.
On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 1:28 PM, Neil C Smith <neilcsmith....@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 12:12 PM Louigi Verona <louigi.ver...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Nothing in the concept of FLOSS promises floss software to actually be >> more high quality or more stable. All it guarantees is that you can >> distribute it and modify. So why would it magically be more stable than >> proprietary? >> > > No, I get you're serious - more amused by how different your experience is > to my own - I'm sure I can crash a Mac by looking at them. ;-) I'm not > necessarily saying that there aren't problems, but that it's far less > likely in my experience that a FLOSS system that's working solidly one day > will behave differently the next. > > But actually there is something in FLOSS that I think does sometimes make > for more stable software, if less featured - there's no money to be made in > fixing bugs. > > Mind you, my usual response to anyone asking me why I work with FLOSS is > that I got fed up of paying for software that doesn't work properly - we've > got all our own shit that doesn't work properly, but at least I don't feel > like I've been screwed over. ;-) > > Best wishes, > > Neil > -- > Neil C Smith > Artist & Technologist > www.neilcsmith.net > > Praxis LIVE - hybrid visual IDE for creative coding - www.praxislive.org > -- Louigi Verona https://www.patreon.com/droning https://louigiverona.com/
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