[forrestthewoods]

You're getting downvoted but you're not wrong. Well, it's not on purpose per se. It's just really really bad design from the 80s when we didn't know better. And unfortunately its design hasn't been fixed. So we have to deal with almost 40 years of accumulated garbage.

[doublepg23]

Aren't there some ideologically driven decisions to make proprietary extensions harder/impossible?

[sylware]

They would be illegal everywhere the GNU GPL can be enforced.

[sylware]

Indeed, that why HN comments are kind of dead (AIs, zealots with one billion accounts behind VPNs, etc). Sometimes I do still try to give an honest, but unpleasant, opinion/fact though. I should stick to raw neutral communication and information publishing.