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It is, however, the right thing to do.
Profiting off it is not the right thing to do.
Correct. Once you go communist you can't go back. Otherwise you're just a thief.
Personal computing paves the way for personal library science
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How does slightly improved laptop hardware relate to re-invigorating desktop software? Surely desktop computing has stagnated because most users are primarily or exclusively mobile users. In Mac land Apple has been progressively dumbing down their interfaces, in Windows land Microsoft is more focused on extracting maximum value from their users than trying to meaningfully improve their platform. In Linux land there a…
> How does slightly improved laptop hardware relate to re-invigorating desktop software? If Arm SystemReady laptops with good performance/watt have an open security foundation (declarative, immutable OS at EL2) to support multiple competing "app store" equivalents on Linux, the resulting revenue and competitive market can reward innovative desktop software - open, closed or hybrid. Without an Apple tax on storage and…
> the resulting revenue and competitive market can reward innovative desktop software - open, closed or hybrid.
Outside of Steam, not a single software distributor (including Canonical) has been able to do this. Linux succeeds in spite of everything you mentioned and none of it would particularly enable the sort of experience you're describing.