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Re:Oracle Migration to Austin to Take Place over Next 100 Years on Saturday December 12, 2020 @04:56AM (#25397136)
It's a satire
Re:GNU Guix 1.2.0 on Monday November 23, 2020 @02:20PM (#25190546)
Well Andy Wingo and others ganged up on RMS. I think it was very unfair.
Perhaps you haven't spent an absurd amount of time on HN
Re:Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store on Thursday August 13, 2020 @08:11PM (#24151578)
I wish Novell, Canonical, Red Hat and other open-source leaders would form an alliance to build an alternative OS for phones.

Even if it takes 20 years to reach the same market-share that Linux currently has on the desktop, it would be a win.

At least, we'd have an option.

I am not a Linux expert and apps crash sometime but I never feel BULLIED by the Linux ecosystem.

Re:Self-Contained Development Environments (2018) [pdf] on Friday August 07, 2020 @05:05PM (#24086464)
I wish we could have Lisp Machines for our desktops. Single language for the whole stack, so easy to scope the source and reason about the choices made by developers. No software bloat at all.