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   Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Dec-2025 07:40:04 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

   Interesting results! I think choice is really important.

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Dec-2025 07:40:39 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     So, I'd say Yes, but. It's important, but I can imagine cases where I could live with a lack of choice.

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Dec-2025 07:40:40 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     However, I can see the point of some low-level, infrastructural software to have a small number of implementations, even one.

     Especially if the software is free and open source and the project has high multipolar participation.

     It might be better for the community to put bug fixing and security effort into a single project rather than spreading it across multiple projects.

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Dec-2025 07:44:35 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     • Sam Clemente

     @countablenewt sure. We don't get to choose our traffic light software at every intersection. Sometimes you have to live with what's preinstalled.

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     Sam Clemente (countablenewt@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Dec-2025 07:44:36 JST Sam Clemente

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     @evan My "Yes, but" was in cases of things like tax preparation software

     There shouldn't be competition there, it should just be a free piece of software from the government

     Not Rocket and Block constantly trying to fight the battle of "how expensive can we make it to file your taxes"