Agnostic God

I’ve seen this awesome presentation recently about linux. It wasn’t a flame war but a real and well argumented discussion. Linux sucks for the desktop and we know it.

But even so, we love it, keep using it. Because it really needs us and we have to keep believing in it no mater what.

The subtitle of the presentation was “And what can be done to fix it“.

If you don’t have the time to watch it, the conclusion is:

• use standardized back-ends for package management, audio & video frame works etc
• things need to be made simple
• commercial software must be encouraged as well
• free & open source software is not actually 100% free, because developers are human beings and need to eat (they sacrifice more than enough already contributing to open source, so help out and even consider donating)
• DON’T encourage useless code duplication!

If you liked it, please digg it!