rnd0 · HackerTrans

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I originally wasn't going to try it -but now I have to!

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Particularly since the first version of Windows shipped in what -1985? Contemporary with 4.2BSD? Did 4.2BSD even use /etc/hosts the same way or DNS?

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Elon bought Twitter to destroy it, this is simply the latest step in that process.

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>And at that point you also realize that are better OSes

Nothing beats Windows 11+WSL2; literally the best of both worlds.

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Great for svardos users, not ideal for the rest of the FreeDOS community, however.

[edit]Additionally, it looks like people's IP address is included with their posts. YUCK!

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OS/2 was more stable than Windows and it had threaded application support -so the analogy does hold, IMO.

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Corruption exists because key internet infrastructure is maintained by corporations with perverse incentives (eg browsers owned by advertisers).

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>The Free Software Foundation was founded in 1985. From there since Free Software has only lost ground.

Are you joking? This was before my time, but there once was a time when you would not only have to pay for development tools, but pay for them seperately. Want a compiler? $500, please. Want something like Bison? Fork a few hundred. Want an assembler? Another few hundred. etc.

There have been setbacks, and it does look like the tide is turning towards everything becoming closed again but it's untrue to say that Free Software has "only lost ground" since 1985 -hell, GCC didn't even come out until what, 1987, 1988 or so?

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>To say that is non-constructive would be an understatement; it's just shutting down any conversation and exploration and how we can improve things.

This is probably one of the best critiques of his approach (and by extention the FSF) I've read. Very true, and it is a tremendous waste.

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Open Source in the OSI sense of the term was created as a reaction to the Free Software movement so I'm guessing probably not.

It's more likely that we'd have the situation we had with UNIX; incompatible forks tied to incrutable hardware drivers that no one can fix with a zillion different combinations so that when you sat down at a terminal you had no idea what to do -thanks to people being able to take the BSD/MIT software and create their own contrarian forks.

GNU wasn't innovative because it was free, or even because it's source was free. It was innovative because it forced people to play nice.

The UNIX Wars demonstrated how well people play with others when left to their own desires (not at all).

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