asciilifeform: but notice, he won't, like vampire avoids the sun☟︎
asciilifeform: how or why, for instance, it took most of a year to arrive at a 100% static and embeddable trb
asciilifeform: you can tell here that gabriel_laddel either does not know, or care, what sort of herculean labour is involved in undoing years of design braindamage
asciilifeform: 'Gentoo can PRACTICALLY be improved by slowly & surely eliminating it from Masamune. There are plenty of people who can, and have written lisp bootloaders. The only problem with this (and all related projects) is that they're incomplete, due to lacking a working lisp environment one can integrate with. People write code using the _stable_ abstractions at hand.'
asciilifeform: i still have some of my father's drafting toolz, they were taken by his father out of - supposedly - dead german, have nazi eagles on'em
asciilifeform: (rather like what happened to openbsd -- d00d gets tired, 'eager young thing' steps up)
asciilifeform: torvalds showed that it is not only possible, but not even especially difficult to resist, but eventually he will exit the stage. and at that point poettering will probably end up 'ceo of linux'
asciilifeform: 'We decided we needed to take a different — and bolder — approach to this problem. We believe people who write and share ideas should be rewarded on their ability to enlighten and inform, not simply their ability to attract a few seconds of attention. ' << lel, ordinary spamatronics not enough, gotta also have http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-31#1594901☝︎
asciilifeform: 'I’ll start with the hard part: As of today, we are reducing our team by about one third — eliminating 50 jobs, mostly in sales, support, and other business functions. ' << they SOLD SOMETHING?!
asciilifeform: hijackings like xorg, debian, etc ran on the fumes remaining in what was once a very tall tank of respectability cachet of academia, american heavy industry, etc.
asciilifeform proud member of the entirely inhomogeneous nonfraternal nonorganization of folx who do fine without Existing on Pediwikia
asciilifeform: we dun have any 'information available' on how rando sea cucumber can BECOME DEVELOPER !11ohnoez
asciilifeform: 'There is no information available on the XFree86 home page on becoming an XFree86 developer. Information for new developers consists of the mention of a couple of mailing list addresses in the README document included in the XFree86 4.3 release.' << picture how d00d would react to meeting trb
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if it had been, say, ~considerably~ smaller a la systemv's cat command (old thread), it'd be at least worth contemplating. but yes, it was a tall pile of shit even in 1993
asciilifeform: 'The KDE and Gnome projects were forced to form the freedesktop.org project to extend and enhance X Window System standards because XFree86 refused even to participate in the process.' << this is lulzily reminiscent of naggum's opponents and their 'we MUST MODERNIZE cl despite the HIDEBOUND standards committee refusing to consider our crackpotteries'
asciilifeform: eh the (few working) open driverz could be ported.
asciilifeform: (or at the very least, what it'd take)
asciilifeform: i'd be curious to see if original could be revved up on any recent box
asciilifeform: ohnoez, insufficiently many fly eyes!!!
asciilifeform: 'The 'fetchmail' project has contributions from over 800 developers. Over the last two years there were about 250 contributors to XFree86, a project more than a hundred times larger.'
asciilifeform: context of the XFree86 Core Team, which makes his membership of that team unviable. As a consequence, Keith Packard is no longer a member of the XFree86 Core Team.'
asciilifeform: 'It has been brought to the attention of the XFree86 Core Team that one of its members, Keith Packard, has been actively (but privately) seeking out support for a fork of XFree86 that would be led by himself. He is also in the process of forming a by-invitation-only group of vested interests to discuss privately concerns he has about XFree86 and the future of X. He has consistently refused to even disclose these concerns within the
