How many GNU/Linux users are needed to change a light bulb?

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Dec 10, 2020, 4:04 PM UTC

Ygg2 wrote: post #107

scoutt wrote: post #73

1 to tell the user to file a super extensive bugzilla ticket backtracking all the history of the light bulb like on/off frequency, usage, etc. 1 who says they should rewire the entire house electrical wiring in Rust. 1 who says that more light bulbs can be found in the usual place: a drawer called /etc, or /usr, or /usr/local/, or /opt, or...

> 1 who says they should rewire the entire house electrical wiring in Rust. 1 person who will protest against Rust and will write it in PHP. 666 people suffering the bulb.php that when turned on or off will consult a ten thousand entry long list of stuff that might happen.

Post by MaxBarraclough » Thu, Dec 10, 2020, 4:17 PM UTC

4778468d wrote: post #40

ivalm wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Grep, ls, bash, (g)awk, grub, gcc, make, gzip, tar, time, plotutils, gimp, gnome, emacs and many, many other things

There’s so much stuff on a Linux os. Seems a bit of a stretch to say that providing a bunch of command line utilities gives operating system naming rights.

Post by fierarul » Thu, Dec 10, 2020, 4:37 PM UTC

taffer wrote: post #59

fierarul wrote: post #58

And... Why aren't there community done bulbs or printers or cars? The pinnacle of technology is mostly free and open source. Yet, I don't see this in any other industry sector. So... is tech ahead of the curve of the most idealistic one?

Light bulbs and cars have significant marginal costs that software does not have. Some types of software (operating systems, DB, browsers) also have a network or platform effect, so people actually have an incentive to get other people to use or even improve their software.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Dec 10, 2020, 4:44 PM UTC

DonHopkins wrote: post #45

Q: How many Northern Californians does it take to change a lightbulb? A: Hella!!! Q: How many Southern Californians does it take to change a lightbulb? A: Totally!!! https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6492j904 Hella Nor Cal or Totally So Cal?: The Perceptual Dialectology of California Mary Bucholtz, Nancy Bermudez, Victor Fung, Lisa Edwards and Rosalva Vargas. Journal of English Linguistics 2007; 35; 325. DOI: 10.1177/…

Post by Jaruzel » Thu, Dec 10, 2020, 5:07 PM UTC

balabaster wrote: post #95

cheaprentalyeti wrote: post #88

I remember back in the old days there was a whole stack of this sort of joke. It started with "How many electrical engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?" "We'll fix the problem in software!" "How many software engineers does it take to change..." All the way through to "How many Microsoft executives does it take to change a lightbulb?" "Darkness. The new standard from Microsoft!" Bonus points for those who co…

"Darkness. The new standard from Microsoft!" Thanks, you owe me a new keyboard... and incidentally, a new cup of tea :D