If you want to understand why Linux achieved “world domination” — how it unambiguously wrecked, and rendered irrelevant — Windows and OSX in the cloud, it wasn’t exactly technical superiority.
You choose them, you spend all your time fighting fiddly licensing bugs.
Once.
Nothing is more expensive than having to ask permission.
Nothing is more desired, by some.
@nVidia, you don’t need to bind your ****ing control panel to a single motherboard. It’s ok.
I can hack around all this, and will.
Though repeatedly abandoning working APIs is also a thing.
Oh, Software.
The problem with enforced licensing is it’s a feature set for making sure things don’t work.
It’s hard enough getting things *to* work. It’s a little like a restaurant making sure *some* people get food poisoning, or a surgeon leaving room to let a few patients die of infection.
You can make any case you like, board man gotta get paid, but the unambiguous avoidance of these licensing structures in software looks *exactly* like how we’d treat those providers.
I’m at the end of a thirty hour sprint with a Surprise Fuck You and friendly or not, not *now*.
It will be a 20-30 hour sprint to unbreak this, which of course reflects why software is so hard to predict schedules for. But when intent shows up, so do consequences. I’ll totally get over it, others absolutely never do.
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