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I prefer being told what to do so that I can use my mental capacity on things I care about.
I do not care about making a dishwasher or a 3d printer. I would rather pay someone else to do it, and I would rather that person has a team of people under them who can help me with trivial issues if I come across it.
I desperately do not want to waste my time with a dishwasher or anything else in the kitchen.
People aren’t building a washing machine at home. That takes industrial machinery.
I don't think this is limited to just digital items like software.
I would absolutely use an open source dishwasher if I could ship my custom design to a manufacturer to build.
It's bound to happen at some point, right? There's a lot of people doing dishes.
No. As a hardware hacker myself, the benefit and draw is the fun of it, I don't want to have to hack my own dishwasher and make it work to my requirements, not maintain it.
Hackers usually write very bad code, in case you weren't aware
Even if you imagine software development to be generally fun, even the mundane, the rest of the workflow can be God awful boring. While Communism is a cool idea , it never works since you need incentives to motivate people.
By the way this is a decent job for an apprentice under supervision. It’s a good way to learn with minimal risk and young people are often willing to do this kind of thing. Then the veteran comes in and makes a few improvements to the QA system and hopefully it’s good for a while.
However, here are the list of release notes for LibreOffice: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/release-notes/
You can see man bugs were fixed in the latest release.
What may sound dreadful to you might be interesting for someone else.
While capitalism sounds nice in practice, it results in the destruction of the planet because the profit motive eats everything alive and leaves nothing behind for future generations.
A couple of people with a bunch of fixes attributed to them seem to work for Red Hat, and several contributors have Collabora email addresses. A fair bunch of fixes would seem to be from members of a LibreOffice team at some company (based on bugzilla comments and email addresses). One contributor seems to be from a company that does consulting related to LibreOffice.
A few fixes are from people registered with what look like private email addresses or with email addresses associated with the LibreOffice or other open source projects themselves. But they seem to be a minority.
That doesn't mean it can't be interesting to those people, or to many people, but it also doesn't mean most of the fixes were motivated by that alone.
(Also, fixing bugs is different than QA.)
> While capitalism sounds nice in practice, it results in the destruction of the planet because the profit motive eats everything alive and leaves nothing behind for future generations.
As always, that doesn't mean communism (or some other supposed polar opposite) would work. Or that those are the two possible binary options.
