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by maxloh
51 days ago
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I don't think that will work. How many of us did contribute a simple patch to LibreOffice, Firefox, or GNOME? At least this statement doesn't hold for LibreOffice. Their Online version, including "simple" HTML/CSS components, was archived because of a lack of maintainers. For their main project, the vast majority of contributions in the last release were made by former ecosystem partners (Collabora) or TDF staff. Volunteers only did a fraction of the work [1]. [1]: https://www.collaboraonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/L... |
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Document file formats are a fucking nightmare, especially the Microsoft ones, and needing perfect compatibility with them spanning a generation is hell on earth.
Firefox is a similar scenario but for the web and decades of "it works on the dominant browser but the dominant browser refuses to follow the spec".
And GNOME is a matter of varying levels of direct hardware support/integration and app compatibility across basically the entire personal desktop computer and laptop eras.
Each of those has a compatibility scope that's absolutely massive.
Comparatively Tangled is a greenfield project with no compatibility requirements other than "support git" and "don't break compatibility with itself".