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In that context they saw a market opportunity and took a chance. Makes it even stranger to dedicate a takedown post to it.

I don't understand why a hobby project for a few people warrants what is essentially a takedown post.There is a ton of open source projects that are not needed. People do them for all sorts of reasons. Live and let live.

TL;DR; when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail

Although I like your version also. Haven't heard the full story before like that

This is such a tired argument. It's been 20 years. You don't think other OS's have had the opportunity?

The fact is, Windows is still king today because of backwards-compatibility and nothing else. No other OS has taken this as seriously. Certainly not Apple. And not Linux either.

You can still run DOS programs on Windows today. And companies do. I personally know of software originally written in the 80's and with many legacy components from that time still running on modern versions of Windows Server.

Companies don't take backwards-compatibility seriously. And if you're constantly breaking things, people are not going to trust your product for serious use to be relied on. It's really not that complicated.

Not to mention the developer tools are second to none. You may not like .Net, or you may have some problem with how Microsoft did business 20 years ago (get over it). But Visual Studio is hands down, without question, the best IDE on the market. And Visual Studio Code is the best text editor. And now, with their open source efforts, it just keeps getting better.

(Yes, I know that's not Apple's intended market, you don't have to tell me. The point still stands. Windows is popular today because of a herculean effort by Microsoft over the years to ensure backwards-compatibility. And yes, I know it's not perfect. You don't have to tell me that either. It's always the same tired arguments. And at the end of the day, the point still stands and no other OS has risen up to take Windows crown. And no, this year is not finally going to be the year of the Linux desktop. Next year either. Or the year after that. It's not going to happen. Get over it.)

I don't think that's true. I've never heard that about any other industry. Certainly not about janitorial work. Doctors curing a patient, lawyers winning a big case, secretaries keeping the schedule up to date, teachers with kids who pass their tests, truck drivers who deliver on time. all of that is plainly visible. IT is a field in which few people see the results or understand the effort required.

This is more prolific in software than just Y2K. At a company I work with, if everything is going smoothly and things are working, devs get a ton of crap for not getting more done, no matter the pace and productivity. Of course they get crap when things aren't working also.

When people don't understand something, they can't tell the difference between a lot of effort to make something work smoothly and "it's clearly not that big of a deal"

The Democrats could pack universal single payer healthcare into this bill and it would still pass. It would be political suicide for Republicans and Trump to block it. They would of course scream about the Democrats playing politics, but they do that about everything already, so what's new. The Democrats would be able to say they tried to help the country in a time of crisis and were blocked. It would be a win-win for Democrats.

Disclaimer: I am an independent and don't think Medicare for all is a good idea. Still though.

Terrible analogy. You don't die if your OS crashes. If a bridge or a building collapses, it's very likely to kill people.

Not to disregard your own experience, but I too am old enough to remember the start of mobile phones, and no one I ever knew thought they were dorky. Douchy maybe, but that was mostly bc the early adopters were wealthy businessmen and finance jerks (no offense to anyone if you are one). But not dorky.

I'm not. I'm just judging him for doing so. Which is wrong. I shouldn't have phrased it like that. I guess that stigma in society around people who are perfectly happy being happy and don't feel the need to "be great" is sensitive to me because my wife constantly receives a lot of crap for it.

So you be you, previous poster. Just don't look down on others who don't want to change the world.

The question posed was why do they Have to? Not why Should they.

Of course we need people driven to move society forward. But there is a stigma in modern society it seems around people who are perfectly happy being who they are and not "striving to be great". And that's ridiculous.

The previous poster asks all his potential dates, with what seems to be a fairly heavy helping of disdain for the "wrong answer", what their plan to change the world is.

Why does it matter? You go change the world. Let your spouse or your friends or your colleagues be content with not changing the world and just be happy living in it.

Why do they have to? I have that drive, but my wife is perfectly happy with a calm, comfortable, stress-free life. And in fact it helps to bring me back down to Earth sometimes also.

There's nothing wrong with wanting a life that free. In fact it's oftentimes admirable. Especially at times when I'm wound so tight I feel like I could pop.

If you're choosing a partner based solely on whether they want to be the next Elon Musk or not, you're doing yourself a serious disservice.

And if you really ask those questions to every potential date, you should stop, because dude, wtf?

In my opinion RuboCop is too strict. Every code standard analyzer takes some tweaking to get it set up for a particular project and team standards, but RuboCop needs changing of a ton of rules to make it even usable in a reasonable fashion.

I love it because it brings some order to a meta-everything world, but it'd be nice if it came with a reasonable set of rules by default

I'm sure it's not ok to the people that need those new medicines

It's not privilege. It's a right the country has fought and died for for over 200 years. It's a principle the country was founded on.

"Privilege" has lost all meaning in today's world. It's just a word to throw around to slow how "woke" you are.

Calling our rights "privilege" is throwing out the struggle and sacrifice of everyone that fought for those rights.

You may have been Lucky to have been born in the US, but not Privileged