Opt-out can never be the right answer.
Runterwählen ist kein Gegenargument.
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Opt-out can never be the right answer.
(and deserve it)
Please enlighten me: how do they deserve to be paid for a non-profit product?
Being a developer myself (with no ads in his software), I don’t think you understand my point. The software I write in my free time does not pay my bills. That’s why I also have an actual job.
What makes you think that developing a free web browser needs to grant anyone any income?
Mozilla actually has (had?) ads in Firefox, right on its default start page.
So? Is anyone who can’t afford one legally obliged to have a website?
Why do you think a web browser needs to make money?
So is NetSurf, and has been for most of this century already. I mean, it’s great to see people even caring about independent browsers, but NetSurf surely needs much more love (and more developers). :-)
I wish that most forks wouldn’t be even worse. Pale Moon, the most interesting one, is a gang of patent trolls.
Creators and journalists need money to survive, and currently, ad-supported viewing is necessary for that to happen.
The only way out of this is to block advertising. I, personally, think that you should not have a website if you can’t pay for it yourself, but the only acceptable kind of website income is a paywall. If you just have “better advertising”, advertising will never go away. And I hate ads.
Windows
Open source, not free software.
If your goal is to ever talk to people about open source software, that’s going to create a lot of unnecessary confusion.
I guess that my definition of open source is not that uncommon, given that the terms “free software” and “libre software” exist and are rather well-established by this point.
People often use the OSI’s Open Source Definition when using the term “open source”.
Which is one of the possible definitions. Mine is “you can see the code”. Everything else falls into “free software”.
I think the new one remains closed. Sadly, not locked away.
What is “actually open source”, if “here’s the source code” is not?
That’s the blog’s logo.
Well well well, if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions.
You can make embarrassing mistakes in virtually any programming language that’s not too esoteric.
When I still used Python for prototyping (today, I usually use Go for that), it happened much too often that I did this:
if foo:
bar()
foobar() # syntax error
In Lisp, however, both errors are much harder to make (not even considering GNU Emacs’s superb auto-indentation - which is what most Lispers use these days, as far as I know):
(when foo) ;; <- obvious!
(bar))
(when foo
(bar)
(foobar) ;; <- still valid
(quux)) ;; <- also still valid
There is exactly no single reason to make this personal. What I meant is that writing a free piece of software does not necessarily have to be paid work. A variety of popular software tools, including a few web browsers, by the way, is written and maintained in the developers’ free time.
“Doing stuff” is not the same thing as “doing paid work”.