Open Source fans are incoherent

So what's your point, that normal users can't benefit from open source software? At least with open source software that's free, as in freedom, you're free to distribute and modify code. Normies will be able to take advantage of different plug-ins and add-ons for their free alternative program, that's already a net benefit when it comes to user experience.

>b-but you can't understand it, it doesn't matter!
And you have the opportunity to learn if you're really that concerned. Closed-source software would have it so you'd sit in the dark. We've already seen fucked up shit from them, from telemetry and data breaches to rootkits.

Or fork, if things become irrecoverably fucked.

I mean you're not wrong. But it benefits from the fact that open source code CAN be audited by 3rd parties impartial to the success of the code, and by crowds of people, and if the project dies it can be forked and revived, like how k9-mail just got forked to Librem Mail.
The average Joe doesnt give a flying fuck about trusting their code, they care about being able to use the same shitty software they know how to use to avoid having to learn something new. Open source keeps projects and work alive instead of letting it get buried. You know how many average Joe's wish someone would fork Windows 7 or XP to keep them alive? A lot. You'd have to be retarded not to see the benefit, or else just totally disconnected from the real world. And being an autistic faggot on Jow Forums, I'm guessing both are descriptive for you.

Where do I buy an open source fan? Is it compatible with most motherboards?

show us on the doll where open source touched you

With open source, you can deterministically prove statements such as "this is insecure/secure/slow/fast and here's why..."
With closed source you have to assume people know what they're doing or the update changelog isn't just for show.

>other people can tell you if it's malicious or not
>if they're lying someone's bound to prove them wrong
>alternative versions of the same software exist if you desire more from a piece of software that is free
>can use the source code of software you're familiar with as a vessel to learn a programming language
>can compile the software yourself even if you don't understand what it means
yep, totally nothing benefiting the average user

>You're just putting faith in a different group of 'experts'
you don't put faith in proprietary devs?

>can see the code it doesn't matter if you can't understand it

dunno about your country education level, but here in France we learn code in high school and soon in primary school

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what's the correct way to pronounce croissant?

Go to a restaurant. Would you prefer an open kitchen where you see your food being made and the ingredients, or have it hidden and not know what you are getting. Except the difference is that the closed kitchens want to sneak pills in your food.

It goes a long way in making a libre replacement that doesn't suck balls. It took so long for libreoffice to be a viable office replacement but it still is lacking with a good onenote killer.

Missing out Windows 9 doesn't make any sense, Microsoft. At least open source fans can count to 10. At least, this open source fan can.

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Why do you hate freedom?

foss = functionality-oriented
proprietary = financially-oriented

even if you never touch the code, at least with foss, you know the software has your best interests in mind, since they make the software for themselves, not for money

this open source bullshit comes from the times where everyone who used a computer was also a programer.
there is other ways of knowing if the software is spying on you, you dont need to see the source code. so it holds no advantage for the average user.
that is not an average user case

OPEN SOURCE SHOULD BE MANDATORY. Not just for software and video games, but for animation too.

I don't give a fuck about what excuse and idiotic introverted mentality you have in that sick mind of yours.
I have spent 10 years in an autistic fanbase making shitty "training" projects with stolen assets and an IP that doesn't belong to them, that I'm wondering how can they possibly find the gall to call it "their project" and obsessively yell "nobody steal my project". Sick in the fucking head, these people need to be belted to hell and back. At least now I understand how most companies, ceos and executives think.

It isn't enough that most people don't bother with doing 90% of the work on a shittily coded project with no potential, they also have to autistically keep the source files locked away for no reason.

Have sex.

Cause proprietary security measures are fucking ass

crew-ass-an

>You shouldn't trust strangers who does it for fun!
>Yeah, I trust strangers who does it for money.
You're incoherent, dumb fuck, retard shit stain

that is your opinion, it is not someones job to make their proprietary source easily available to you.

I care about software freedom

Transparency is transparency. It's no different than codes of law being public information. Maybe you need a lawyer to interpret it, but that's a universe away from laws being unwritten and secret.
(Unwritten laws were actually a thing in the ancient mediterranean. Landowners were opposed to public display of written laws because it would mean that the poor would be able to argue their own cases without needing to know the oral tradition.)