Another rant

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Liam Proven schreef op 17-11-2017 13:24:

>> Not saying that standard tools can't be good, but they have to be in 
>> line
>> with who you are.
> 
> Not really.
> 
> Unix is a culture more than code. Where opinions differ, forks happen.

That is in contradiction with your "not really".

If you say that certain forks die the implication is that only one way 
of doing things remains.

Thus, you have to fit into the mold.

If you don't like it -- for example because of the bad user interface 
many "standard" and "successful" tools have,

then you are screwed.



>> I understand that but it doesn't tell me when I read the overview.
> 
> It's free. So nothing is spent on marketing. Normal for the FOSS world.

You are wrong.

Look at its website.


> Terry Pratchett — 'The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is
> that people will insist oncoming along and trying to put things in
> it.'

It wasn't put in by anything good. It was put in when they were 
children.

Now their minds are closed.


>> No I suspect culture has more to do with it than individuals, culture 
>> which
>> is often defended by those who say it is perfectly fine.
> 
> True.

> No. Corruption is the excuse for the surveillance. But surveillance is
> cheaper than police officers on the streets, and AI watchers are
> cheaper than humans, and you cut costs until the result is useless or
> even dangerous.

>> So you are trying to argue to someone who has always lived in a desert 
>> that
>> lush fields also exist.
> 
> Definitely true.
> 
> See the preface to the Unix Haters' Handbook.