Indeed.
The local bus transit has a digital ticket system with QR codes for tickets. I haven't actually tried decoding the codes but just seeing them and interacting with them I can tell they have gone WAY overboard with either the amount of data they try to fit or the amount of error correction. Probably both. They are nearly unscannable due to their size and all the bus drivers just wave you along if you don't manage to scan it.
The second one is being completed (as far as I understand) by a team in germany at a music machine museum (Musikkabinett). Their channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Musikkabinett
Turbo Pascal 2.0 had an IDE with compiler and debugger in a binary less than 60kb (if the info I found googling is true). Of course nowhere near the capabilities of modern environments but state of the art at the time.
Been working with it for the last year or so and the looks are alright but I just completely loathe the way tkinter is designed... it just feels so old.
Although this seems the likely reason I prefer to think the previous comment is right. Jane has been reanimated and is in cahoots (was it?) with the HN management!
It has always been OK to restrict distribution of source to your customers.
From the GPL:
"For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether gratis or for a fee, you must pass on to the recipients the same freedoms that you received."
The operative word being recipients.
Redhat may be the devil incarnate now that they apparently are a part of IBM... Though as far as this distribution change I don't see the problem.