• yianiris@kafeneio.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    10 months ago

    Because some developers act on their own consciousness and don’t have a slavemaster corporate manager telling them what they need to do or not do.

    When one doesn’t like any of the available choices yet a new one is born. Can you measure how many v.terminals we have, or how many window managers on X11?

    @Unsafe @mmstick

    • Unsafe@discuss.online
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      9 months ago

      Fortunately such “new choices” get abandoned very quickly. Making new solution instead of improving existing ones is counterproductive. Unless there is a large legacy codebase. Smart people have invented Unix principles to avoid that.