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[anda_skoa]

The enforcers have the power whether the rules are written down or not.

But written rules make it possible to control that use of power....

[anda_skoa]

Not necessarily.

They can also restrict power that existed by making the rules clear under which they can be exercised.

For...

[anda_skoa]

How so?

FOSS communities have been using written guidelines for ages, some way more controversial than common sense rules of respectful behavior,...

[anda_skoa]

Why would a source based distribution like Gentoo suddenly discards its main goal just because software vendors switch from one way of providing binaries...

[anda_skoa]

Ok, then I must have misinterpreted what you said.

For me you seem to suggest that applications would somehow depend on Flatpack, which would...

[anda_skoa]

Excuse me?

Applications magically became non-portable due to systemd providing the system startup?

Can you list some examples?...

[anda_skoa]

Why would that happen?

That would make the application unportable to anything non-Linux, e.g. BSD, Solaris, macOS, Windows, Android or iOS....

[anda_skoa]

Poor Social Injustice Warrior snowflake!
Feels he is entitled to treat other contributors anyway he sees fit just because he has some technical...

[anda_skoa]

I think in a lot of cases the incompatibilities have not been introduced on purpose, very often technologies look "standard" or "portable"...

[anda_skoa]

Some pretty cool projects!

It is great that some other companies have followed Google's lead and pooled their resources to create another...

[anda_skoa]

Shell apps usually don't interact with the X server clipboard at all as they aren't X11 applications by themselves.

But the terminals certainly...

[anda_skoa]

Any example of an application using the third but not the main clipboard?

Usually a normal user would just use the standard clipboard, copying...

[anda_skoa]

I already provided one concrete example.

In general this benefits when you need a web app and your technology stack and developer skillset...

[anda_skoa]

Being able to use Qt for a web front end.
A company might have several capable Qt developers but not have web app developers.

For example...

[anda_skoa]

Obviously, nobody is disputing that.


The web browser as a platform


Correct.


The new platform...