Who writes Linux and open source software?

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Thoughts?

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I write opensource software …

Quite frankly I don’t understand the question.

Do you expect me to read an article?

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I write free and open-source software:

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If you must be pedantic - the software I write is AGPLv3 or later

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It is a link to an article named “Who writes Linux and open source software?” and then a request for discussion around the article.

Using the name of the article as the title for the topic is a pretty common convention on this forum.

If you aren’t interested in reading the article, there isn’t much to discuss. :slight_smile:

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This could be transferred into the “Question of the Day/Week/Month” thread but I’d leave it to the OP. :smiley:

I use QB64 Phoenix Edition (front end to g++) to write Linux software. Before that I used the older version of QB64 to write WIndows software. But it’s just a hobby. I like 1980’s jaggies graphics and video games and write programs for that end. Also I like exploring with experimental sound creation but dislike binary formats like WAV and even less do I want to deal with FLAC or MP3.

I was going to do a PPA which was a simple music sequencer that would have been clunky for other people to use. It was going to be run by text files and required only single-channel WAV files. As I’ve said, I’m a hobbyist programmer.

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At least scan the article for context because there is a portion that some may consider a red flag.

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One more senseless article, the writer of which just syncs with his own message:

Money

Plain clickbait.

Congratulations to the OP! You accomplished the article author’s purpose, wasting more forum users time.
:rofl:

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It’s so generic i’d be damned if it wasn’t written by AI :rofl:

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God!? :rofl:

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I was concerned about open source being written by the likes of Microsoft.

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I skimmed over it - it was a waste of time …

Why? - if it is open source - it’s open source - you can go over the code and change it as you see fit.

I admin - a large project like dotnet - which is MIT - it becomes quite overwhelming.

I took my baby steps with the predecessor QB4 and the DOS4 version qbasic.

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ooo, you may not like this article.

Microsoft makes lots of contributions to Linux.

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If it weren’t for M$ then the authors of Wine would have still been at v1 trying to entirely <–swodniw reenigne<-- … in before keybreak or someone else like that corrects me…

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That would be pretty Closed Source :innocent: