[ryukafalz]

> when was the last time you used a piece of software that truly achieved something useful on its own rather than solving a perceived problem that only exists because of the idiosyncratic nature of the web and cloud stacks?

All the time. One I use every day? Emacs. (Which long predates anything web or cloud related.) For a more recently developed example? Guix.

Setting aside the fact that a very large portion of the software I use outside work is free software.