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   cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 09-Oct-2025 00:51:11 JST cjd

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   I would counter-argue that the main problem is that without economic signals, developers default to making things vastly more complex than they need to be, and they become unmaintainable and unusably buggy - also nobody wants to test and debug for free. Everyone wants to write new and exciting code.
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     Russell James (onebasedbrother@yggdrasil.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Oct-2025 00:51:12 JST Russell James
     About a decade ago, Ken Starks of Reglue published a thought-provoking entry on his blog, The Blog of Helios, suggesting that the barrier to Free Software adoption is bad documentation. He asserted that the lack of quality documentation is due to a philosophical approach to documentation writing, within the community, that he calls “good enough.” By this, he appears to mean that document authors are . . . https://gnuguru.wordpress.com/2024/04/19/the-main-barrier-to-gnu-linux-adoption-is-lack-of-oem-support/