All significant open source development today is done by folks who are not "scratching an itch" but cashing a paycheck, and the projects they release are things that would not have made them money anyway. The actual valuable stuff the trillion-dollar companies of today do is still overwhelmingly closed because secrecy is still a better way to engineer products that sell.
Windows lets you run Linux apps at the same speed as raw metal Linux, but with good drivers for things like video cards, wifi, etc. Windows also gives you access to a more diverse selection of its own apps so you can get your day job done. As for Macs, you get nearly the same benefits as that but now you also get access to the best hardware money can buy, from the cpu right up. I'm sure Linux will be ported to Apple Silicon eventually, but one look at the history of Linux even on x86 laptops shows how it will suck with half-finished drivers, shitty UI and terrible touchpad semantics, etc. Linux will always be a third rate OS for desktops.
If you look at my comment history and hilarious knee-jerk downvoting of anything remotely critical of the HN hive mind, it should be clear to you that I meant that sarcastically.
One look at the comments in a typical HN thread about FOSS shows how good a job the big players (Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc) have done turning what was a threat into an asset. We literally now have people proclaiming how great it is to be able to work without being paid as if it were a badge of honor.
Once the animals are gone, we won't last much longer. It is extremely naive to think we can engineer ourselves a new biome that can sustain anything even close to what we have now.
FWIW, PCM5102 boards off ebay are about $5 and work perfectly with the pi0. They don't support hardware mixing or volume control, but the sound quality is surprisingly good.
Apple has created for the first time in all history a walled garden of pure ideology, where each worker may bloom, secure from the pests of any contradictory true thoughts.
I agree it was intended and I remember Sun talking about that intention at the time. Sun specifically removed the multiple license compatibility language (section 13) from the Mozilla MPL when creating the CDDL:
As a non-mac user I am fascinated by blogs like this. Does Apple care? Like, if they just ignore the issue, will enough people stop buying their products that they will even notice? When Apple releases a new product, it seems to me the person who wrote this post will buy it regardless and there is absolutely no incentive at all for Apple to address the problem.
More like many. About 6.5% of US households do not have a bank account. There's also the concept of the "under-banked", which covers people who have them but still use non-bank fiscal implements such as payday loans and money orders. That number is about 19% of US households.
Independent of the technical issues being discussed I find this site to be an interesting example of the politics around open source development. It is run anonymously (out of albania, presumably to avoid whois lookups) and does not link to responses or opposing points of view. In addition it is posted regularly on various technology sites such as reddit, HN, etc.