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But it did not get the answer you expected. So a failed rhetorical question.

Maybe they could find another way to market it, e.g. Windows is free but with ads, and there is a subscription which makes ads go away. Or something else. Some creativity is needed.

Nowadays MSYS2, which does depend on cygwin under the hood, offers such a package manager (pacman of Arch Linux) and it is quite a user friendly to run native POSIX binaries on Windows without a linux VM.

Why can't they charge a subscription for windows? It could be only a small yearly fee.

> We're all morons outside of some very narrow areas of expertise

speak for yourself, I guess? Some people know things in many areas. But even if they are not experts outside of their areas of expertise, they may recognize their limitations in other areas and thus avoid making costly mistakes. This may even be the rule for adults, rather than the exception.

I am sure it doesn't. For one thing, it is much quicker to leaf through the physical copy than to browse the PDF.

In such a clear-cut example, I think we have saved the two hours.

There exists a relevant, even German, quote: “Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.” ― Otto von Bismarck (first chancellor of Germany from 1871 to 1890)

But isn't that the whole point, that foreign governments perhaps do not want Microsoft to host all their data, users, groups, software on Azure, because then the CIA also might obtain access?

> If it were about making a choice of which web framework to use on the server, obviously you wouldn't want to use Lua.

Wait just a minute, there exist many web frameworks in lua, and programmers who enjoy lua might want to use them.

> - Qt Widgets worked fine, but looked like a piece of software made in 2013;

That's too bad, because I prefer software which looks like it was made in 1999.

Look at how conveniently you chose to ignore the fan's age, attributing his behaviour to unwilling or luddite! Or do you really have absolutely no idea, what it means to be 81 years old? Still, I would bet you have met at least some people of such an age.

> US-stored gold is not of the same quality grade as in the rest of the world

... to put it mildly. Nobody has audited the gold in decades and even its owners (banks of foreign countries) are not allowed to inspect it.

what we’ve actually created is an alternative Linux desktop that uses neither X nor Wayland, this is very welcome news, since X is allegedly "abandonware" and of course not everybody likes wayland.

But what about that meeting that starts with "how do you feel today?" and "if you were a car, what car would you be? And why?".

That is the whole point. Since decades, it has a single point of view, failing to represent the majority of the people.

Deming's point 3 (of 14): Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for massive inspection by building quality into the product in the first place.

> Senior leadership doesn’t know this, though.

Well, you'd think senior leadership should know how their business and their people work.

It seems you wish for a system which would be able to stop Brexit against the will of the people.

Hetzner DNS

Whatever existed before it

I don't follow why it flew out the window. To me it seems perfectly possible to define the community (of an open-source software project) as consisting only of people, and to also to define an etiquette which applies to their 'virtual' interactions. Important is that behind the internet-connected server, there be a human.

So perhaps the AI companies will go bankrupt and then this madness will stop. But it would be nice if no government intervenes because they are "too big to fail".

From your own quote

> participation in our community

community should mean a group of people. It seems you are interpreting it as a group of people or robots. Even if that were not obvious (it is), the following specialization and characteristics (regardless of age, body size ...) only apply to people anyway.

Well their view ist that antifa are actually fascists, which makes anti antifa democrats.

Because status page is hosted on Hetzner itself

The booklet looks great.

it is so much slower to start than perl, that you don't want to run it for quick one-off tasks

In connection to Mike Pall's comments on the status of v3.0 made last November, I would like to mention this post [1] of his, back in 2017. Mike Pall had proposed replacing LuaJIT’s 64-bit NaN-tagging with a variable-sized slot design to support larger pointers and unboxed value types. Also translating source directly to executable SSA form, without bytecode generation. Such changes might be part of the complete architecture change under consideration for v3.0.

[1] https://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/Few-questions-about-Lu...

But he has been working actively on LuaJIT. According to [1], he has come to the conclusion that, instead of working on LuaJIT 2.2, it would be a better investment of his time to go big on v3.0 and rearchitect it. LuaJIT 2.1 is to be maintained.

[1] https://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/Question-about-LuaJIT-...