They'd be an awesome life. Knowing the device in your chest is buggy and will have 'updates' released every time the developer makes a commit to the revision control system. Knowing that your entire life depends on a guy who is doing it because he can shout 'OMG FOSS FOR LIFE FUCK THE MAN I'M SAVING THE WORLD'.
Knowing your life depends on developers who only care about the code they write and how it fits their needs.
You'll have 45 buttons on your pacemaker that let you control all the different ways you can stimulate and control your heart. Most of them will return 'not yet implemented', 3 of them will result in a core dump of pacemakerd, 10 of them a PANIC reboot, another 2 cause it to just go silent and halt, and the developer threw in an Easter egg that makes you piss your pants if you hear a penguin.
If you're lucky, you'll get a group of devs that doesn't have 2 or 3 in it that throw temper tantrums on semi-regular basis and threaten to fork it while not putting any effort into the project.
And to top it ALL off, If you complain to anyone about it, the response you'll get is:
You have the source, fix it yourself.
Let me tell you how quick I would be to jump on that train. To tie my life to someone who really doesn't get affected in anyway when his/her software kills me and has no real reason to put any effort into ensuring it doesn't.
The OSS world still doesn't get why companies avoid OSS software, what the fuck makes you think anyone with a 3rd of a brain wants their life to depend on OSS.
I use OSS constantly, there are some great accomplishments. Large portions of my life depend on OSS, but you will probably never find OSS in controlling any thing that my actual life depends on.
I prefer to live, not prove how awesome OSS isn't for every situation.
OPEN SOURCE IS NOT INHERENTLY BETTER, STOP PRETENDING IT IS. You guys REALLY need some perspective. Or just stop letting timothy have access to post to the front page.
Or maybe you might learn what "open source" is. It is not necessarily free. It is not necessarily part-time. It merely means that the source code is available. Such a long bout of rabid typing for such a small amount of understanding.
If you're lucky, you'll get a group of devs that doesn't have 2 or 3 in it that throw temper tantrums on semi-regular basis and threaten to fork it while not putting any effort into the project.
"What? Not implimented??? Fork you! Just fork you, motherforker!"
Open Source pacemakers (Score:1, Funny)
Sure, go ahead, implant one in your chest.
They'd be an awesome life. Knowing the device in your chest is buggy and will have 'updates' released every time the developer makes a commit to the revision control system. Knowing that your entire life depends on a guy who is doing it because he can shout 'OMG FOSS FOR LIFE FUCK THE MAN I'M SAVING THE WORLD'.
Knowing your life depends on developers who only care about the code they write and how it fits their needs.
You'll have 45 buttons on your pacemaker that let you control all the different ways you can stimulate and control your heart. Most of them will return 'not yet implemented', 3 of them will result in a core dump of pacemakerd, 10 of them a PANIC reboot, another 2 cause it to just go silent and halt, and the developer threw in an Easter egg that makes you piss your pants if you hear a penguin.
If you're lucky, you'll get a group of devs that doesn't have 2 or 3 in it that throw temper tantrums on semi-regular basis and threaten to fork it while not putting any effort into the project.
And to top it ALL off, If you complain to anyone about it, the response you'll get is:
You have the source, fix it yourself.
Let me tell you how quick I would be to jump on that train. To tie my life to someone who really doesn't get affected in anyway when his/her software kills me and has no real reason to put any effort into ensuring it doesn't.
The OSS world still doesn't get why companies avoid OSS software, what the fuck makes you think anyone with a 3rd of a brain wants their life to depend on OSS.
I use OSS constantly, there are some great accomplishments. Large portions of my life depend on OSS, but you will probably never find OSS in controlling any thing that my actual life depends on.
I prefer to live, not prove how awesome OSS isn't for every situation.
OPEN SOURCE IS NOT INHERENTLY BETTER, STOP PRETENDING IT IS. You guys REALLY need some perspective. Or just stop letting timothy have access to post to the front page.
Re: (Score:3, Insightful)
Or maybe you might learn what "open source" is. It is not necessarily free. It is not necessarily part-time. It merely means that the source code is available. Such a long bout of rabid typing for such a small amount of understanding.
Re: (Score:2)
If you're lucky, you'll get a group of devs that doesn't have 2 or 3 in it that throw temper tantrums on semi-regular basis and threaten to fork it while not putting any effort into the project.
"What? Not implimented??? Fork you! Just fork you, motherforker!"