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Re:Lies I was told about collaborative editing, Part 2: Why ... by josephg on Monday March 16, 2026 @10:31PM (#47407869)
> the fact that it stayed open for 6 YEARS before they started to try to fix it...

This is all opensource software, provided for free by volunteers. If you want better bindings, go write them. Or pay someone else to do so.

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Re:Lies I was told about collaborative editing, Part 2: Why ... by antics on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @03:24AM (#47422610)
Just to be extremely clear: we pay for a lot of OSS software. We pay one individual project more than $10,000 a year. We would have paid for Yjs too, if we thought it was a good use of resources!
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