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> Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment is hardly a 2022 notion ;)

Yes! I think the modern version is have a messaging system.

More like "try to use as many moving parts and layers and fragmentation as possible to accomplish a single task, turn the Linux desktop into a distributed system with messaging back and forth, and distributed state that can go wrong".

Yes, I wonder how a systemd-inspired iPod would work. It would surely have multiple webservers, even if it had no network connection.

I reckon it's: Do one thing well. Microtransactions.