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   lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 07:47:19 JST lainy
   50% of foss not succeeding is because it's ugly as heck and the the other 50% is because it's used by people who have a technology fetish and who will badmouth your project as soon as it uses a package that they don't like
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     Fish of Rage (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 07:49:31 JST Fish of Rage

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     @lain 1980: code reuse is a primary goal of software engineering
     2020s: you used dependencies, yuck
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     oshy (ocean@raru.re)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 07:50:27 JST oshy

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     @lain Also no one wants to pay for ANYTHING

     Asking for money for free software is a huge taboo for some reason and anyone who does it gets shit on, so obviously no money goes towards the projects, so obviously they are far behind paid options offered on MacOS or whatever

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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 07:52:29 JST lainy

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     @ocean
     > guys start software project in their 20s
     > 10 years later they have families and actually need some money
     > "um we made 1% of code that's not free immediately but paid but it becomes free in a year but we need money"
     > community: WOW THEY SOLD OUT
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 09:22:56 JST feld

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     @ocean @lain
     
     > Fox host Brian Kilmeade says it's good that Trump is going to cut the Open Technology Fund because Americans are "addicted" to having free software
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     Fish of Rage (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 09:23:59 JST Fish of Rage

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     @feld @lain @ocean lol what a piece of shit
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 09:30:38 JST iced depresso

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     @lain @ocean usually its like 5-10 years from the BSLs i've seen