Geeks love to fix hardware!
Par Benjamin Drieu le dimanche 31 octobre 2004, 10:00 - Debian - Lien permanent
Today, while fixing the heel of one of my dear's shoes that she was to throw away, I just realized how geeks just love to fix hardware. Last time it was my hair clipper that I fixed and it is just an example of hardware I opened and fixed instead of just disposing it. And the vast majority of my geek friends do love opening various devices too, understanding how they work and finding an elegant solution (or gory kludge) to fix them.
Perhaps this is why we, free software geeks, are so in love with free software: just because we can open software and find what is wrong in it. How many times have you been stuck with proprietary hardware (oven, washing machine, ...) that is locked and need proprietary components instead of plain old vanilla screws?