<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Wed, 26 Jul 2023, Giles Orr via talk wrote:<br>
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> <a href="https://gilesorr.com/wm/table.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://gilesorr.com/wm/table.html</a><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)" class="gmail_default">This kind of resource never fails to intrigue me, and it reminds one of the big weak spot of FOSS development that has been with us from the very beginning.<br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)" class="gmail_default">In FOSS, developers write stuff that scratches their own itches, which is why we have such a proliferation of window managers (and editors, and source control, and languages, etc.) Yet stuff that is end-user-centric that doesn't scratch any geek itches tends to go unserved or underserved in FOSS, while proprietary solutions prevail because they scratch developer itches with money. Just imagine if a small fraction of the talent used to re-invent all these window managers had put its attention to giving Linux a single fully-functional PDF editor.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left">Evan Leibovitch, <span style="font-size:12.8px">Toronto Canada</span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:12.8px">@evanleibovitch / </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">@el56</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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