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by sametmax 2794 days ago
Do you know how much special cases there are in all FOSS to accomodate the bad decisions of the rest of the world ?

Just look at the ifdef in the Python source code to make it cross plateform, it's insane.

But it's what's makes it useful.

You can have purity. But you won't have many users, because on the scale "Stallman <=> My dad", they will all be on the far left.

Nothing wrong with that. But it won't be a big number.