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wrong but wromantic ([personal profile] sally_maria) wrote in [community profile] linux4all2011-03-26 09:29 am

Because I spent too long on the lottery machine yesterday...

One of the big advantages of open source is that if you don't like something you can fix it, or pay someone to fix it for you. So, if you'd won the Euro lottery (£117 million), what little "quirks" of your favourite distro or software would you pay someone to fix?

What projects would you donate to?
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[personal profile] siliconshaman 2011-03-27 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd go with the driver suggestion, someone to write drivers for everything. And someone to write the required 'gubbins' to make n-class wifi work on Ubuntu [it's not the driver, it's the bit of the kernel the driver talks to that's the problem.]

and if I had spare change, someone to revive and update Yggdrasil.. just because I like that name!
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[personal profile] swisscelt 2011-04-16 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Hear, hear! Along these lines, it should not be so freaking difficult to make WPA work with an old Toshiba laptop. If money were no object, I'd just buy the proprietary drivers, release the source, and let the community at it. I suspect it's all just planned obsolescence anyway, as there doesn't seem to be a technical/hardware limitation to some of these endeavours to make old hardware work with modern security. Rather, it's because this old hardware can't run with newer versions of Windows that hardware manufacturers just throw up their hands and refuse to update the drivers for older stuff. (Ahem... ending this comment before I start in on another Windows rant.)