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Why does a text editor have such a defensive license? This is extreme and reckless levels of paranoia.

Zed devs reading this: just release it as GPL. It will be better for literally everyone.


This already happened and I believe there's even new site policy about it...

Seeing KDE and Gnome come together isn't exactly uncommon but it still warms my heart reading about it.

Unlike their fanbases, KDE and Gnome teams collaborate all the time

...until it comes to bikeshedding new standards


Would definitely read a book about this.

The prisoner's dilemma of stupidity.

Github CEO threatened the entire stack was in the process of migrating to Azure.

https://thenewstack.io/github-will-prioritize-migrating-to-a...


On the one hand this makes a lot of sense.

On the other hand I get oogy about humans deferring their passionate feelings in favor of cold machine logic.


I do that too. Wouldn't say it's relying on the logic. It's more hearing another perspective. Sometimes I think what it's saying makes sense, sometimes I don't.


I was going to say... if you were an early 90s kid, there was plenty of "don't let the kids be exposed to today's music".

Admittedly I went to a Christian high school, but we actually had a school intervention about kids listening to "dangerous music" like Nine Inch Nails.

I don't think any of us had on our bingo card that 30 years later Nine Inch Nails would be writing soundtracks for Disney movies.


Except networkization was inevitable and I'm sure the smart people in the room saw it coming.

For what I remember, networkization with DOS was a PITA so set up. You didn't have a convenient system API with sockets. You had to mess with interrupts, registers, etc... Your app had to be programmed for your specific hardware, and networking looked more like talking to serial ports than anything else.

Remember that DOS is single process, it is not as if you could run a service just like that. You could mess with interrupt handlers, but you had to do the scheduling yourself, and make sure your code is small, because shockingly, 640k may not be enough for everyone.

MS-DOS simply wasn't a good choice for networking, and not just because of the lack of security. In fact, it could turn out to be more secure than modern systems because of the limited attack surface. No crazy framework stacks here, just your code and the network card.


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