Out in the alternate universe where folks are actually building things (instead of the corner office of the guy using business double speak) "success" also means "attracts competent developers and retains them."

Many folks at the time did not want to contribute code that would just get stolen by proprietary parasites and *literally* sold back to them.

Or to projects where improvements never made it back to the mainline.

Those folks, in my experience, were the ones who actually both knew what they were doing and had a strong belief that they were contributing something to the larger community - and not something easily looted by the guy using business speak who just wanted more revenue.

Those folks, whether or not you agree with me, preferred contributing their time to GPL'd projects over BSD projects.

Were you a developer at the time? If not. STFU. Stay in your lane.

It's worth noting that busybox replicates many of them, and it has its own oddities.

Literally every one of the coreutils tools have some odd edge cases - some that make sense, some that do not. But at some point that behavior is something that callers expect, and when a replacement does not behave that way... You know the rest. "#define bad" etc.

Been running sid nodes since 1996

YMMV.

"Industrial Revolutionar"

The what now?

Y'all are lazy trash..

"Industrial Revolutionary"

The what now?

Y'all are lazy trash..

> it's amazing how little we know about what happened.

Agreed. This is definitely a PR stunt. Nothing but red flags in this PR (public relations vs press release, either way, lies to sell you more shit).

wine macos support is dead dead dead.

You do care because that money represents how much tech industry employers are willing to overpay you (using the money left over after they overpay C suite and management) to attract talent from going to other companies.

Without those billionaires throwing money at tech, hiring and salaries at all levels dry up.

Be honest: for the amount of work most white collar tech employees do, they are overpaid. Billionaires make that happen.

So its more like "I don't care what happens to overpaid tech workers' which is a fine opinion to have.

That speculative pyramid scheme VC money is also what keeps your tech heavy portfolio growing without bounds.

So "i don't care to tech heavy portfolios" that's fine too.

do programming languages count?

"The very point of intellectual property laws is that they protect only against certain specific kinds of appropriation....All creators draw in part on the work of those who came before, referring to it, building on it, poking fun at it; we call this creativity, not piracy.... Intellectual property rights aren't free; They're imposed at the expense of future creators and of the public at large.... This is why intellectual property law is full of careful balances between what's set aside for the owners and what's left in the public domain for the rest of us....It may seem unfair that much of the fruit of a creator's labor may be used by others without compensation. But this is not some unforeseen byproduct of our intellectual property system; it is the system's very essence. Intellectual property law assures authors the right to their original expression, but encourages others to build freely on the ideas that underlie it. This result is neither unfair nor unfortunate: It is the means by which intellectual property law advances the progress of science and art...."

- [Vanna] White v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc., 989 F.2d 1512 (9th Cir. 1993) (Kozinski, J., dissenting from denial of rehearing).

Children? Really? You accused me of being a bot. It would be childish of me to accuse you of being an ESA shill.

Creators are under no obligation to seek statutory monopoly protection from the state either.

It is *literally* part of the patent bargain, and implicit in the idea that copyright terms are limited.

I'm finding fewer and fewer of your posts to be factual at this point.

Why constrain this to games? Why not software as a whole? The entire internet (and technology as a whole) depends largely on open source code, unencumbered protocols, and standardized, royalty free document formats.

Would the internet exist if only IPX and NetBIOS were viable?