[smoldesu]

> Think of the global man hours wasted achieving basically the same thing slightly different ways

Like when Richard Stallman forked e's source code and built the little-known editor emacs.

Or when Linus Torvalds rewrote UNIX as a useless free kernel without tech support, documentation or mandatory subscription fees.

Or when Chris Lattner wrote his own scrappy C compiler and redundant intermediate language just to be cool and edgy.

Fuck it, why do we have technology at all? Why doesn't the government just tell us all what to do, think of the global man hours we could save with that!

[saurik]

These stories are weird, as they were all heavily driven by code licensing, which isn't at all (afaik... maybe I'm wrong and this is the back room reason we are all being forced in this direction) the story with Wayland.

[nightowl_games]

Correct.

There is no evolution without mutation.