On 2006-09-19, flatfish+++ <flatfish@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:14:29 -0500, Linonut wrote:
>
>> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>>
>>> __/ [ Linonut ] on Monday 18 September 2006 21:50 \__
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> A typical end user could care less.
> To them, the software is a blackbox, data in ===> data out.
>
> The problem with the OSS community is that they actually believe that
> having the source is directly beneficial to the majority of users out
> there.
> It is not.
>
> Doctors use billing systems.
> Cashiers use POS systems.
> Audio engineers use DAW's
> Video engineers use Video workstations.
Video engineers use bleeding edge hardware and try to milk
every MIP out of it. Individually optimized binaries would be of
TREMENDOUS benefit to the performance minded end user.
The same is true to a lesser extent for audio engineers.
The same goes for embedded systems like POS where the idea
is to use as few as resources as possible.
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Delivery by source and makefile could be of considerable
and perceptable benefit to the naive non-technical user. As you
say, they would not really care that it was delivered that way
either.
That "distinction" is lost to them.
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