System76's COSMIC Working On Drag & Drop, More Compositor Improvements

[sophisticles]

That's not even accounting for the fact that this would be a PR disaster for an open source project that would immediately cease interest in third parties contributing to or using it.

If these third parties aren't spending a dime, who cares.

The only concern has to be to the paying customers, the people that pay your salaries, not to a community that can't wait to leach off your work and get the benefits without the risk.

[Quackdoc]

They already use image-rs for cosmic background anyway, so they already settled on their image lib for now.
I agree it's far from prefect, but it does the minimum needed.

PS: why their types are Rgba and LumaA, keep it consitent guys. RGB, RGBA, Y, YA

it has a LOT of limitation, low performance, AVIF handling sucks, they refuse to accept jpegxl for the 3 major gripes I have.

[DumbFsck]

By releasing PoP_OS!+COSMIC as a free product that anyone can download and install on any system, you effectively eliminate any reason to buy a System76 computer.

Would you care to show your analysis of how, then, system76 has already survived and THRIVED for all these years?

Cause you know, their current offerings are not restricted like you suggest they MUST do or they'll die...

Our CEO was a guy with a Doctorate in Chemical Engineering, very no nonsense, he didn't want to hear about support contracts, he made the It department build the computers in-house and support them themselves.

If he was a finance, economics or even a DBA (a really hateful breed, I agree). He would know how bad this allocation of resources was.

Having your IT build and maintain those systems works well enough for at most half a dozen machines. If you have a large enough deployment you will have issues every single day, regardless of platform. How many man hours will the company have to dedicate to research/purchasing, then manual assembly and then directly fixing whatever went wrong? Will they need to hire more people? Thousands of companies did the math and concluded the premium over BOM cost of off the shelf parts is worth paying.

The way you describe it makes it seem like IBM, dell and HP (for example) shouldn't ever be able to sell their thinkcentres and mini, tiny, micro systems, their clients will just buy off the shelf parts and barebones NUCs (that don't exist, sort of, but there are options from amd and even still Intel just without the branding). And yet there they are, raking in billions.

[rmfx]

This sophisticules guy really has mental issue or what. Every S76 news, he's shitting on their business model. What's his problem ?

[pharmasolin]

Was pop_os not available for download for free? People could buy a hardware and install their tweaked Ubuntu for years.

[smitty3268]

This sophisticules guy really has mental issue or what. Every S76 news, he's shitting on their business model. What's his problem ?

He just likes to troll people here. Not sure why everyone keeps feeding him.

[Daktyl198]

This sophisticules guy really has mental issue or what. Every S76 news, he's shitting on their business model. What's his problem ?

He's just a troll. He pretends to be super anti-FOSS and pro proprietary models. He claims Microsoft Windows is the best thing ever made, and nobody should ever make free software. People keep replying to him, so he keeps posting. His arguments don't make any sense because he doesn't actually believe them, he's literally just making shit up on the spot.

[Julien Bear]

System76 wants to make money with hardware. They are developing an in-house design laptop, which could finally be an 100% Linux-Laptop without OEM-Parts dedicated to Windows, but to Linux, showing its pros. That would be similar to Apple. Hackintoshes aren’t a competitor either. And no one would use Pop_OS without Updates. And licensing software itself in the Open Source World doesnt make sense. Even Canonical fell on its nose with its contribution license.

[qarium]

This sophisticules guy really has mental issue or what. Every S76 news, he's shitting on their business model. What's his problem ?

watch out for his illegal activity he spread links to hacked servers who then attack the phoronix.com forum users if they click in the link.

[sophisticles]

The way you describe it makes it seem like IBM, dell and HP (for example) shouldn't ever be able to sell their thinkcentres and mini, tiny, micro systems, their clients will just buy off the shelf parts and barebones NUCs (that don't exist, sort of, but there are options from amd and even still Intel just without the branding). And yet there they are, raking in billions.

IBM, Dell and HP do not have the option of going to their website and downloading the Os that is preinstalled on their offerings for free.

This companies sold primarily Windows machines for years and Windows isn't free.

Moreover, these three companies have name recognition that people trust and due to their large size, they can scale support across large organizations.

System76 is a small operation that builds overpriced computers featuring a legally free OS that you can download right from their website.

Very different.