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linuxhaters.blogspot.com — A good majority of the FOSS crowd seems to argue that distributing source code is always a great thing. Well I'm here to say that it's not all peaches and cream. The OSS convention of primarily distributing source code packages has many downsides that nobody seems to want to talk about.

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  • Peterix, on 07/14/2008, -4/+1*****.
    Distributing binaries for all the distros that ever existed is the last thing I would like to do as a developer. I won't be making debian, rpm or whatever packages are 'the thing' right now. Nor will I waste my time learning to do so.
    ``Another more mundane problem. How do developers recoup their development costs while giving all their "secret sauce" away?''
    There are no secrets. There won't be any secrets. Secrets are BAD. If you can't understand that, you have no business talking about Free Software.
    I agree with the documentation part. Testing/patching - not so much.
    And calling people 'fossclowns' won't win you any friends.

    Go back to Windows and stop trying to turn Linux into the same kind of fugly binary mess.

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