Today I'll talk about one of the successes of the free software community.
know how many of the people who know me, I abandoned Windows a few years to switch to another operating system, especially because I was tired of wasting time to crack programs and install patches and a fistfight with the settings.
I'm still not repentant, and I urge anyone with a computer (and want to save time) to install Ubuntu , if only for one afternoon, just to prove it. I know many of you are too lazy, but remember my words the next time you will crash a program or have to reinstall something.
Back to the story.
morning the messenger server decided to change the protocol for the connection. The official client was ready, but Microsoft has not had the courtesy to inform the part of the world that uses Macintosh or Linux.
Result: This morning my account on msn kicked me without any explanation.
Now, think how long it has taken the developer community to bring out a patch for this slaughter? Less than four hours (and port as a test of the comment Launchpad with the solution of the problem . Launchpad, for the record, is the system for reporting bugs in Ubuntu.)
We compare now the four (4) (still can not believe) hours for a patch against the typical times of Microsoft, who travel on two weeks at best, and reach the years when it goes less well.
The fact that there are people willing to pay for a product that is a monument to poor marketing by Microsoft, and laziness (ignorance? Idiocy? Literary education?) Of the average user.
