Retroconning closed-source proprietary software, and wiping the rest (was: Re: Early-2014 Macbook Air and Linux Mint Cinnamon)

On 2026-06-25, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:35:22 +1200, Your Name wrote:
>
>> On 2026-06-24 01:24:17 +0000, Lawrence D´Oliveiro said:
>>>
>>> Yeah, Linux is a proper Unix-type system, unlike that whatever it
>>> is that Apple runs on its machines.
>>
>> Technically, you've got that almost-backwards.
>
> While on Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:35:05 +1200, Your Name also wrote:
>
>> None of the standard software runs on it for a start - no Adobe, no
>> Microsoft, etc. ...
>
> Interesting how you can claim, on the one hand, that Linux is not a
> proper Unix-type system, yet the only examples you can offer of
> software that won’t run on it is from companies that are not known for
> producing Unix-type software ...

This really sounded like coming from one of these people who believe
that Microsoft and friends are somehow the gate-keepers of computing and
that The Microsoft Way™ is the original way - which is quite funny,
given how that proprietary, closed source approach was something that
had to impose itself on an universe where the source wasn't that hidden,
from what I understand...

It's as if Microsoft succeeded in rewriting history to pretend that
their way is the way things have always been done, and pretending that
open-sourced software is something novel that people are trying to push
as some sort of extremist move to displace "standard software houses",
and implying that it will never be mature enough or the like, despite
many such projects being more mature than Microsoft software, besides
older.

And there indeed are people who believe this, people who will accuse
FLOSS projects of merely trying to be "cheap copies" of proprietary
software.

-- 
Nuno Silva