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I always give the same feedback for this type of bs. Actions speak louder than words. If you have to tell people how great a company's culture is it clearly isn't.

Its often cheaper to hire a few devs to work on opensource projects your company relies on than pay for some proprietary software. Also allows you to retain control too.

Way i see it is there are 2 camps of people when it comes to desktop computing. There are most regular people who just see it as a tool and want it to let them do what they want without having to put much thought into it. They will have various levels of skill but don't care much past that.

Then there are the people who I think of as enthusiasts. Who have have different things they care about and cause all the arguments and pedantic nit picking. There are the fanboys who love tech created by a company and always like to have the newest thing from them. There are the people who really into making their desktop look pretty. Finally there is the group who likes to have total control of their workflow and hate having features taken away (group i belong to).

So looking at all of this it is no wonder most people are not interested in desktops and the group that is are only going to like it if its from their brand of choice.

The problem with saying change something if it offends someone is that is open to abuse. Are you going to remove something that speaks out about a government killing its own citizens because that government finds it offensive? That would be stupid.

In the case of master and slave i don't mind the defaults for new projects being changed but this new trend of going around and demanding everyone update their projects right now is just silly. You are asking people to put in a huge ammount of effort and possibly break lots of external things for the sake of making a few white guys feel like they did something.

Yeah that was me. If I can get enough people to use them I will get enough spirit energy to be able to buy a magic sword off a ghost. Then with the sword I can fight the magic photocopier to get the pendant to open the door....

I have a heap of ebooks i got from amazon and find I need to break the drm and convert them to pdf just to read them on my kindle. Really hate the situation on one hand I want to support the author but I don't want to support amazon for the bs that doesn't work.