You mean like this https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...

Here we have an example of what corporate greed results in, companies run into the ground by clueless idiots who just want to line their own pockets.

https://dilbert.com/strip/2020...

More accurate description all things considered.

Commodore used a four digit numbering scheme for many years, the PETs were 2xxx, 3xxx, 4xxx, 8xxx etc When the VIC-20 came out it, and all its peripherals, were assigned 1xxx. In Japan the VIC-20 was the VIC-1001.

This is a bad idea for more reasons than that, when a bug is identified in a dependency everything that uses it would have to be rebuilt. Packages are not built by a single entity, you'd end up playing whack-a-mole. The reason shared libraries are used is nothing to do with the licence, it's the correct deployment model.

As I always say, you can only make a system idiot-proof for a given subset of idiots.

Let us EXTEND our delight at Guido's return. Help me with the next bit.

Win XP running in Virtualbox is fast even on hardware a decade old.

Why beer of course!

Did he step down or something? I thought he was in charge of the USA?

You don't mention https://musl.libc.org/ has any work been done for that?

Teach them? Pfft. We had to learn ourselves. At least these days you have emulators that load instantaneously. Back in the day it was load from tape, if you had remembered to save. ... lawn, ... mumble ...

All computer graduates should be made to write code to run on 8-bit micros. Being limited to 64KB with simple instruction sets like the 6502 focuses the mind.

Not hard enough, £/$1,000 per account leaked plus one C-level exec packs a bag for some jail time. Until someone's ass is on the line this sort of incompetence will continue. And yes, my details were included in the breach, w@nkers.