You wake up ultra rich one day

yeah if I were rich I'd spend my millions to actually make GNOME usable...

>if you need an extra feature we will make it for you for $$$
Sounds nice but no thanks, I have a conscience and profit is theft.

give 2.000.000 $ to wine
start an independent company that monitors hardware for hw exploits and backdoors
give money to libreboot and the likes, start a big campaign
give funds to start an office which helps dealing with all the big linux quirks: xorg/wayland mess, systemd mess
give money to microsoft releuctantly to make their an office suite available. Try first to give enoug money to wine first to make this happen reliably.
give a LOT of money to teams who write open source driver alternatives.
Start a fund that makes it profitable for firms to produce free as in libre hardware.

ITs never going to be enough though.

ok, lets say you can hire a bunch of competent devs to upgrade or revamp some open source projects
lets say 5 projects, which 5 do you choose?

I'd go for gimp, though krita is really good but they refuse to go the extra mile for photo processing when the program is 90% the same as other image editing programs but with a vastly better ui
tox so there's a proper skype alternative, but it still sucks so much right now
blender so 2.8 happens faster and we get to 3.0 sooner
openshot, so it isn't full of bugs and we finally have a decent video editor
ubuntu cause they are the most ambitious distro who isn't simply trying to make the perfect 90s era OS

100 billion dollars to 9front and cat-v
bribe governments to replace all their computing software with a plan 9 grid
assassinate Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds
replace all processors with RISC V
create a sensible IBM PC alternative

yep, we need this stuff

the only way to do that is start over from 2.6 or whatever the one was before they went touchscreen friendly

all great stuff

Blender so the UI and sculpting aren't shit.
>MUH SHORTCUTS
I know, I use them too. Doesn't change the fact that the start up time wmas like 2 weeks and there's no way to ease into it, which is what scares off a lot of people.

Bullet could use help too. He's been saying 3.0 is coming for like 2 years now.

A new illustration program that isn't shit and lags like hell on half the machines I run (Krita)

>lets say you can hire a bunch of competent devs to upgrade or revamp some open source projects
What's the point?
If I could hire a bunch of competent devs, I'd rather invest on something truly value-adding.

This if you ever want to actually help the free software movement by funding it, then keep in mind that your money makes them a target for this kind of shit. You can't just throw them a 100 million dollar check and walk away. They'll turn in to Mozilla. These people have centuries of experience subverting movements from within.

>hire programmers to work on it

A more active role like this will have a better chance of success. Your money gives you a say in what gets done. If you say here's a big fat check and walk away, then you've fucked this project over hard. Other people are going to come in with things to spend it on. "Hey let's spend it on getting more women in to STEM. Oh look I just happen to run a koding bootcamp that finds 'diverse' women and teaches them to program in one week. We'll get let them work on your project as practice." Next thing you know you have people with 1 week of Python experience sending pull requests changing variable names and arguing over how problematic virtual hugs are in the CoC proposals.

what I like is that blender is moving in that direction and they have a good roadmap for getting there, I'd throw money at them so they get there faster

the sculpting is ok though, its getting closer to zbrush

>Which open source projects will do you donate to?
I don't support communism

What's so bad about Mozilla? They make great software and are a truly positive influence on the Internet.

...

reactos

Not a single cent to open sores garbage. I'd help Google use ChromeOS to take over Microsoft market share and design a proper Android replacement.

The absolute most I'd do is buy Ubuntu, and all of their competent devs. Make Ubunutu a paid for product to further assfuck MS. Would do this for nothing more than my own amusement.

>the sculpting is ok though, its getting closer to zbrush
No it's not dude. Zbrush consistently leaves everyone else in the dust because they reiterate year after year, and the distant second is 3dcoat, another fairly pricey program.

I would not really want to donate to existing software, it's all so fucking awful.

Even something like mezzano (the lisp OS) feels wrong.

I would want to create a fund for reinventing computing, a bit like the STEPS project.

ok, like what?
you can suggest new projects in this thread too

so go back to living in caves, cause sjws might be prowling outside? and normal companies dont have problems with sjws?

good leaders won't let sjws shit in their project and rename all instances of master/slave to be PC

I guess brave browser could use a boost so it has usable extensions

>ok, like what?
Like decentralized cryptoexchange software. But you missed my point. The point is, if it's something that adds value, then there's no point in making it open sores and losing my entire investment.

they still are, but their direction since removing eich is questionable, and now they feel obliged to stamp out 'fake news' and got a cash injection from soros

quantum engine is quite nice, but I want my old extensions back, and I want mozilla to be technology focused and apolitical

i would buy mozilla and make firefox great again (as in bring back customizations and great features they removed)

I would purchase the infrastructure for a decentralized mesh network across America.

Dolphin

Free software IS a political movement, you fucking moron.

$1million to the people who made cowsay
buy Thinkpad to make libre laptops
also this but for ableton live

>now they feel obliged to stamp out 'fake news'
What's so bad about that? Do you like fake news?
>got a cash injection from soros
[citation needed]

that's actually getting made though, and they have the funds to do it

>there's no point in making it open sores and losing my entire investment.
being free is valuable, having alternatives and options is valuable, not being locked in to the decisions made by microsoft/apple/etc is valuable
your life will be indirectly better if your fellow man can benefit from open source

I'll make the logo

>What's so bad about Mozilla?
Universal backdoor in their browser.

>so go back to living in caves, cause sjws might be prowling outside?

Taking an active interest in the project you're donating to is hiding in caves? This is more like there are predators in the woods so I patrol the perimeter so they don't come eat my family.

>good leaders
See that's the problem. If I want to support good software then good programmers gets higher on the list of priorities than good leaders. This is still roughly a capitalist system. As the person with the capital it falls on you to do some leading. Cutting a big ass check to an organization that's doing good things but isn't prepared to handle it then walking away is hurting not helping. Finding areas for improvement and hiring people to work on them is.

>Universal backdoor in their browser.
what?

>your fellow man
The essence of the socialist "argument".

You can fuck right off with your commie open sores horseshit.

>that's actually getting made though
Of course, because it adds value.
>being free is valuable, having alternatives and options is valuable, not being locked in to the decisions made by microsoft/apple/etc is valuable
That's all great, but again you missed my point, which is that it's pointless to make something innovative open source, because then you lose your investment. You're talking about creating alternatives for existing stuff.

>Universal backdoor in their browser.
It's free software. Show me exactly where the backdoor is.

>giving money to people who have no idea how to spend it

dolphin is already great and keeps getting better and better

how do they manage to do it?
guess gamers really want their gamecube/wii games over a truly reliable and secure skype alternative

>Do you like fake news?
Do you like censorship?
Given mozilla's rabid sjw stance, they will probably just do what youtube/facebook/google did and just blacklist things they don't agree with

soros money
techworld.com/social-media/how-mozilla-plans-combat-fake-news-on-web-3662578/

lmms isn't that bad

>ok, lets say you can hire a bunch of competent devs to upgrade or revamp some open source projects
Great, so that it can be later ruined again by the very same retards who can't code a thumbnail into a filepicker, right?
How about no thanks but no?

I wouldnt donate to any
Heres what i'd do.
Buyout microsoft
Make windows open source.
Ensure 100% backwards compatibility of all windows versions with new one.

They sneak it in through the update mechanism.

Open sores is always gonna suck by definition and this thread shows us why: because if you're competent, you can always find a better paying deal, so only the least competent coders are ever left to do open sores.

>Ensure 100% backwards compatibility of all windows versions with new one.
enjoy your bloat

why worry about sjws?
if someone is more focused on political correctness or giving shit ideas than fixing bugs or writing features, then kick them out of the project, problem solved
just dont use sjws, in regular business or in open source

brandon eich wouldn't have been ousted if he kept mozilla free of sjw tards, they just outnumbered him

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>I want mozilla to be apolitical
>WAAAAH, WHY DID THEY REMOVE A GUY WHO WAS MAKING DONATIONS TO ACTUAL POLITICAL PROPOSITIONS?!?!? THEY RUINED IT WWAAAAAHHH!!!
This is your brain on the alt-rite.

No, I won't donate anything, I would hire programmers to do real open-source OS with fucking support.

>What's so bad about that? Do you like fake news?
>wasting time and donation money on shit users have to do themselves while firefox is still far from good and thunderbird is dying
jeez i dunno

>What's so bad about Mozilla?
techdirt.com/articles/20180117/10282539021/mozilla-consumer-groups-sue-fcc-attack-net-neutrality.shtml

>WAAAAAAAAHHH MUH ALT-RIGHT
this is your brain on alt-left

>firefox is still far from good
Spotted the Chrome shill!

>get your contradictions exposed
>deflect
That might work on the double-digits you typically deal with on Facebook, but it doesn't work here, shill.

reactos, vfio, risc-v

im not the guy you originally argued with i just wanted to let you know you're just as fucking retarded for pulling the alt-right card like a fucking crybaby

do you think kids will grow up better with access to technology and tools or without them?
or should they all pay license fees to microsoft for them to be spied upon and have no security?

if its not open source, how can any user be sure what you make isn't malicious? you can't
security is valuable

why do people bother making alternatives then? still costs money to make, even if the author eats the cost

there's plenty of innovative open source projects because more progress is made if anyone with a good idea can contribute and it ends up benefiting everyone, like bitcoin

unironically this

>w-won't you think of the kids?!?
No I won't, stop trying to guilt-trip me, you virtue-signaling faggot.

not an argument

when's the last time you've used open source software?

recently they forced a bunch of users to install a test extension without notifying the user
in the future, they could do the same to install extensions to spy on users, maybe if you visit that 'cesspool of hate known as 4chin'

Calling Firefox "far from good" without providing any evidence isn't an argument either. Try being subtler next time, you shill.

>if its not open source, how can any user be sure what you make isn't malicious?
You can't either way. OpenBSD is still plagued with accusations of being backdoored by the FBI to this day, and people in this very thread are accusing Firefox of being backdoored.

Depends on how much.

If I'm a millionnaire, donate a few to Gentoo, OpenBSD and a few small projects.

If I'm a billionaire, donate or create a project for a GNU/Linux mobile OS, and an uncucked web browser.

Internal politics were only part of what got him ousted. Large websites were booting Firefox users out. It was a well-coordinated assault from across the entire industry. Someone wanted him gone from Mozilla real bad, and when that little kibble turned up in their oppo research, they had their casus belli.

>Which open source projects will do you donate to?
I don't need open source anymore since i would e rich
>Which open source projects need to be created that don't exist yet?
None

>Which open source projects need to be created that don't exist yet?
Why would there be a "need" for a specific thing to exist in open sores form?
What's the deal with this stupid fixation Cred Forums has with open sores? It's so retarded!

if I woke up ultra rich I'd hire a team of the finest amoral biotech genetic engineers to cook up an ultra lethal airborne Super AIDS and wipe out the entire human race

>muh eich
I think his "incredible success" with Brave proves you wrong, you idiot.

eich donated personally to something be believes in, he did not donate in mozilla's name or create any anti gay policy at mozilla

people can have their personal politics, but they have to leave them at the door when they go to work and eich did that

if it were up to me, I'd just ban all leftists, things would work so much better
technology by its very nature is conservative and the best engineers are conservative, they create durable or antifragile tech, they always create the foundation
libtards are too wishy washy, too pollyanna, don't consider all possibilities, they are bad choices for tech, they create fragile tech

and their soyboy faces and hipster beards annoy the fuck out of me

I negotiate open source drivers with nvidia.

Absolutely this.

>he did not create any anti gay policy at mozilla
Unfortunately he really didn't... that was sadly his mistake...

firefox quantum is undeniably good except extensions
and they're doing a thunderbird revamp soon

thunderbird is already perfect for what it is, it just needs seamless gpg stuff for grandpa

Literally a complete waste of time, they'll never open source shit and even if they would it'd be completely useless without hardware documentation - but if they released the docs, it'd be pointless. So might as well negotiate docs with them in the first place and forget about begging them to open source their shitware.

Mobile Linux, a RISC-V alternative to x86 desktop processors and I'd throw some money to a couple of distros I like

name one proprietary operating system that doesn't spy on users

the difference between open source and socialism is it's not forced altruism and you are free to disagree/fork/improve
under socialism, if you disagree you get shot

>you are free to disagree/fork/improve
>if you disagree you get shot
You've obviously never heard of systemd.

None.

I give money to solus.

Anything would go to some RISC-V company or another, I guess.
Fuck, it takes way too long.
When it comes out, whether it is a success or not, all my personal computing shall be RISC-V.

>needing a gui

with open source, you can see if there's a backdoor or not
accusations mean fuck all

because then other people can help improve it or use it as a base for another project instead of reinventing the wheel

if something is broken, even I can fix it instead of pestering microsoft to add or change a feature

brave is still in embryo stage
I trust someone who invented javascript a lot more than a bunch of sjw retards worrying about gay marriage in a technology company

>under socialism, if you disagree you get shot
Well yeah, if you are trying to fuck the workers then you sure deserve to be taken to gulag and executed alongside your entire family and dog, bourgeois scum!

pretty sure nvidia is already on this path
they seem to be more open to it than amd which seems to have more problems on linux

>with open source, you can see if there's a backdoor or not
Good luck searching a needle in a haystack, you retard who's never done any coding.
>accusations mean fuck all
See

so pick a distro that doesn't use systemd
I agree, systemd is bad design

>so pick a distro that doesn't use systemd
You're missing the point, skillet. It's about the development process. Just because it's open source doesn't mean it's not dictatorial or there's any freedom to it.

I won't give any money to open source. I would hire programmers and fund waifu android research.

I will make more forks of gnu/linux then make more alt coins then make more programming language and force more propritary file systems and file types.

eventually there will be ways of mathematically proving if software is secure, you cannot do this if you do not have access to the code because then you rely on the word of the author

there's a higher chance of a security flaw being identified when lots of people look at code, rather than when no one is looking at the code

and it means open source devs need to be more careful about introducing vulnerabilities that can be exploited by malicious people

and that's not an accusation with mozilla, that actually happened

>be too inept to be able to implement a trivial feature in a simple filepicker dialog
>deflect by saying "heh, y-you're dumb if you need a gooey anyway, h-heh..."
I don't need one, but you couldn't make one if you wanted because you open sores shits lack the most basic programming skills, you retards. But of course, if you had skills, you wouldn't be working for free...

>you cannot do this if you do not have access to the code because then you rely on the word of the author
This is self-contradictory, because if you couldn't, then you couldn't find any vulnerabilities on it either, and it would be by hypothesis secure.

>there's a higher chance of a security flaw being identified when lots of people look at code, rather than when no one is looking at the code
That's the "more eyeballs" fallacy.
>In Facts and Fallacies about Software Engineering, Robert Glass refers to the law as a "mantra" of the open source movement, but calls it a fallacy due to the lack of supporting evidence and because research has indicated that the rate at which additional bugs are uncovered does not scale linearly with the number of reviewers; rather, there is a small maximum number of useful reviewers, between two and four, and additional reviewers above this number uncover bugs at a much lower rate. While closed-source practitioners also promote stringent, independent code analysis during a software project's development, they focus on in-depth review by a few and not primarily the number of "eyeballs".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus's_Law#Validity

>and that's not an accusation with mozilla, that actually happened
So I'm right.

each kingdom has its own rules
but you're free to go your own way

you're not forced to contribute, not forced to use
you are still free to fork/improve if you can do better, as a user you can just use something else

under socialism, you are forced to participate in everything good or bad, your only choice is to flee to another country, if they let you

>you wouldn't be working for free...

the entire point of the thread is paying devs so important open source projects don't suck

>important
Why are they important?

>This is self-contradictory, because if you couldn't, then you couldn't find any vulnerabilities on it either, and it would be by hypothesis secure.
are you clueless how many security flaws are found in closed source software? what do you think hackers do?

>That's the "more eyeballs" fallacy.
doesn't matter if it scales linearly, the point is, people trying to break into linux are going to look at the source code for vulnerabilities, both white hat and black hat, and this means vulns are found quicker and corrected sooner making it antifragile
cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-33/product_id-47/cvssscoremin-7/cvssscoremax-7.99/Linux-Linux-Kernel.html

unlike
arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/09/for-2nd-time-this-year-windows-0day-exploited-to-install-finspy-creepware/

>So I'm right.
right about what?

>are you clueless how many security flaws are found in closed source software?
Are you? That's my point precisely.
>vulns are found quicker and corrected sooner
Comparing Linux and Windows is comparing apples and oranges. Linux is simpler and not as sophisticated. When you have less features and capabilities, you also have less attack surface. Linux is also less used than Windows, which is why less vulnerabilities are found on it - it simply isn't targeted as much. Doesn't mean it's inherently safer than Windows.
>right about what?
About how you can't be sure any given software isn't malicious regardless of it being open source or closed source.

english is clearly not your first language, you shouldn't even be posting here

>Which open source projects will do you donate to?
I don't donate to anyone for any reason.

>Which open source projects need to be created that don't exist yet?
An ISO editor similar to PowerISO.

techcrunch.com/2017/12/15/mozillas-mr-robot-promo-backfires-after-it-installs-firefox-extension-without-permission/

>why worry about sjws?
Because you're trying to help organizations with your money, you have to pay attention to unintended consequences. Your money is also painting a target on their back. This is like going on a vacation to some impoverished country and meeting a family. Then you decide you want to change their life. Then you have an armored car show up with a million dollars and fly back home. That family you care about is going to be robbed and likely killed in your absence.

Fuck all that donating shit. I'm traveling the world and fucking a lot of women.

how rich we talkin

GIMP, you idiots

that was specifically to that post about patrolling the perimeter for wolves

you don't hide in the cave and wait for the wolves to go away, you get rid of them

delete the sjws

Damn, the shills are quick!

>you wake up ultra rich one day
>implying I would still give a shit about software politics

Eh, just waste on making emulators that don't exist but should like a decent OG Xbox emulator, an SGI computer emulator and so forth.

Well I figured offering free helicopter rides was out of the scope of this thread.

This desu. I really want a decent OG Xbox emulator, and Xenia for 360 is making great headwind so probably those two.

>donate
Bitch I would live the Dan Bilzerian life.

>wake up rich
>software sucks
>doesn't help make software not suck

ReactOS. I'd throw a million bucks at them to get the OS 100% ready to replace Windows.

Haiku, cause BEos was cool.

Honestly, if you cared about ReactOS, you'd put that money into hiring a proper management team/hiring team so that the money gets used properly.

You can't just throw money at a project, since everyone is already doing it for free and it's generally a bad idea to make them quit a job to work fulltime. Use the million to hire a consulting company that starts contributing or some shit. You'd see better results.

I'd donate all of it to based Terry and temple OS

Neither, because software is shit.

create new open source and freedom respecting hardware and software company

KDE is getting 5 mil to put the final nail in gnome's coffin, I will pay Poettering 2 mil to straight up leave system d. Find someone that could make it not suck/replace it and support them. 10 mil for the people behind RISC-V and 1 mil for the WINE devs.

>dolphin is already great and keeps getting better and better
I bet half of it is due to the monthly dev blog where they call out all of the improvements and who made them.

fingers crossed they hire a graphic designer so kde will finally not look like amateur hour

I'd buy Cred Forums, kick all mods, remove the API, remove the archives, set thread limits back to 50 pic / 100 posts, and set the time between posts back to 5sec and allow indefinite amount of threads per day. And set up a captcha similar to 8 chan (fill it once, you can post for a few hours). Or whatever 420 had cooked up.

Then party like it's 2006.

Devuan

i just wanna fuck over cisco

>remove the API
faggot

Ahah open source is being milked to death by capitalists.

Fund some crazy porn vr hardware startup. Sounds like fun.

>tfw you killed yourself with 3 bullets shot on the left side if your head from a glock with your hands tied behind your back

Sounds like you want a site infested with spam bots. With the current user numbers it wouldn't work. Not on the fastet boards at least.

Fucking SJW bastards. Fuck Mozilla in the dick!

KDE
MPV
LXQT
Gentoo
OpenBSD

i would buy fourchan and shut it down

>not enjoying your bloat
YOU HAVE TO LIVE IT

yea and trannies
which is funny because that bitcoin dude donated $100,000,000.00 to a (((mental))) health hospital

I'd hire a team (including Jim Keller) to design an open source RISC-V SoC that is competitive (or better) than proprietary ARM/x86-based ones.

I would buy all the graphics cards and destroy them

>Which open source projects need to be created that don't exist yet?

full disk encryption for linux
graphics card drivers for linux
photoshop for linux

>full disk encryption for linux
LUKS?

>Attacks the way something is said instead of the argument itself

Perhaps you should leave instead.

Isn't Bullet already 3.0?

I won't give two fucks for software and hardware or any ware for that matter if it's not alcohol yachts and hookers.

>Which open source projects will do you donate to?

OpenBSD

This.

Then I'd invest money into making plan9 fully usable.

Lol you can just find those screenshots on the Arch forum. Saves me a ton of money and I can continue and use Windows on my gaming laptop

he doesn't have a clue what he's talking about because he doesn't understand english

Pipewire. Like fucking seriously, get the linux audio stack together.

Buy a mint x61 and trannyboot it. Then donate to i3 (if you can even do that)and debian

I would buy Microsoft and make Windows open source
the easiest way to perfection and happiness everywhere

I would buy a lot of dragon dildos, and donate pictures of me using them to all of my favourite projects.

A hardware
Monster girl maker:
Existing female changing/creating new females to monster girls. Then make a farm with 3-4 cowgirls, 1 cat and dog girls and live an easy life playing with my girls.
Like catch, also holding hands, bathings. Also milking cows by hands.

I would purchase GitHub and close it down

Wine
ReactOs
LibreBoot

bitwig

I'd give a substantial amount to Stanley Lieber from 9front so he can hire who he desires.
Give money to any BSD project worth their weight in salt.
And idk.

>Which open source projects will do you donate to?
Hard to tell, since most open source projects do some things I don't agree with. Even when it comes to implementation details. In fact that can be applied to all hard/software.
>Which open source projects need to be created that don't exist yet?
a native text editor that is actually good at editing text
a software for authoring vector graphics, because Inkscape doesn't cut it
anything DAW related
>can be software or hardware
Since that would basically mean reinventing computing you can imagine no amount of money would be ever enough.

I'd invest it in something to make more money.

you couldnt be further from the truth, faggot
amd is the one that is actually developing open source software, they even merged their module with the kernel
nvidia doenst help for shit, they release their proprietary driver and that's it, they dont even provide documentation for nouveau

>can't even implement thumbnails on a filepicker
>I believe that open source is one organization responsible with every open source software
>oh, did I mentioned that I'm retarded?
>t.retard

Buy mac and stop worrying about technology, who cares anymore, im rich and do what i want

Buy winrar.