Is it important to have choices in the software you use?
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@evan Waiting for any 'No' explanations.
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@evan I thought this would be your first 100% poll! I'd love to know what "Yes, but..." means to the people who chose that.
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@evan Yes, AND they have to be real accessible choices, not the free version versus your first born child and a leg.
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@evan I thought this would be your first 100% poll! I'd love to know what "Yes, but..." means to the people who chose that.
@dneary Could you try to make the argument for "no" or "but..."?
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@evan Yes, AND they have to be real accessible choices, not the free version versus your first born child and a leg.
@mayintoronto ok, I'm not sure what you mean here.
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Interesting results! I think choice is really important.
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Interesting results! I think choice is really important.
However, I can see the point of some low-level, infrastructural software to have a small number of implementations, even one.
Especially if the software is free and open source and the project has high multipolar participation.
It might be better for the community to put bug fixing and security effort into a single project rather than spreading it across multiple projects.
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However, I can see the point of some low-level, infrastructural software to have a small number of implementations, even one.
Especially if the software is free and open source and the project has high multipolar participation.
It might be better for the community to put bug fixing and security effort into a single project rather than spreading it across multiple projects.
So, I'd say Yes, but. It's important, but I can imagine cases where I could live with a lack of choice.
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@evan Waiting for any 'No' explanations.
@virtuous_sloth well, I guess it could come down to relative importance. Choice of software is not important compared to having water, air, food, shelter.
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So, I'd say Yes, but. It's important, but I can imagine cases where I could live with a lack of choice.
@evan My "Yes, but" was in cases of things like tax preparation software
There shouldn't be competition there, it should just be a free piece of software from the government
Not Rocket and Block constantly trying to fight the battle of "how expensive can we make it to file your taxes"
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@evan My "Yes, but" was in cases of things like tax preparation software
There shouldn't be competition there, it should just be a free piece of software from the government
Not Rocket and Block constantly trying to fight the battle of "how expensive can we make it to file your taxes"
@countablenewt sure. We don't get to choose our traffic light software at every intersection. Sometimes you have to live with what's preinstalled.
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