[musicale]

Nagware is irritating and simply not scalable.

At least with web browsers they are user-facing and you only have a few of them to deal with.

I never choose parallel intentionally, but I still encounter the nagware messages in the output of scripts that other people wrote. And disabling the nagware message on my laptop doesn't disable it in a container, in the cloud, etc.. It's very annoying.

Wasting 15 seconds of human time certainly isn't scalable over dozens or hundreds of utilities. And applying the Steve Jobs computation[1], 15 seconds * 1 million users = nearly six months of wasted human lifetime.

Fortunately Debian-unstable seems to have fixed the issue by removing the nag message (which violates the DFSG). With luck this will propagate into mainline and into all of the downstream distributions like Ubuntu.

[1] https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Saving_Lives.txt