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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Intel's co-CEO claims retailers say Qualcomm-powered PCs have
 high return rates, points to new competitors with Arm chips coming in 2025
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 07:39:29 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-12-20, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> Le 2024-12-20 à 13:28, RonB a écrit :
>> On 2024-12-20, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>> Le 2024-12-20 à 00:56, RonB a écrit :
>>>> On 2024-12-20, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>>>> Le 2024-12-19 à 19:28, chrisv a écrit :
>>>>>> CrudeSausage wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Le 2024-12-19 à 15:34, chrisv a écrit :
>>>>>>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Linux is the only platform that offers a full suite of software native for
>>>>>>>>> both ARM and x86 (both 32- and 64-bit). Nobody else does.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Payware vendors can't compete with the efficiency of FOSS.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> They can: they eventually implement features that the open-source world
>>>>>>> will copy and implement later in a more rudimentary form.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So where's the payware OS and software for, say, Raspbarry Pi?
>>>>>
>>>>> Where are the profits in producing an operating system and software for
>>>>> such hardware?
>>>>
>>>> Open source is not profit driven. The Raspberry Pi computers make a lot of
>>>> money for small start-up companies. But they're making hardware, not
>>>> software.
>>>
>>> And this is why GNOME is a few months away from going bankrupt as is
>>> Mozilla after Google's legal loss. This is also why KDE nags you for
>>> donations when you first use the desktop environment. Say what you will
>>> about open-source users, but they're pretty bad at giving money to the
>>> organizations that produce the software they use. This is also why the
>>> most talented programmers working on open-source eventually give up and
>>> produce software that they can sell.
>> 
>> A quick lookup on the GNOME Foundation (not GNOME's) supposed upcoming
>> bankruptcy. And exchange from two posters on Reddit...
>> 
>>     Who started this fake news saying that GNOME would "go bankrupt"? I'm
>>     really curious. We're talking about a non-profit organization.
>> 
>>       Lunduke. It's always f-ing Lunduke.
>> 
>>       Hope someone sues his ass one day for this type of shit.
>> 
>> I'm guessing that the Lunduke moron was your "source" (so to speak).
>
> It was indeed Lunduke, but he's basing his report on GNOME's own 
> numbers. I hope that you'll apologize when it indeed goes bankrupt not 
> too long from now.

I won't be holding my breath.

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