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avidseekeron Emotional about X11: I'm creating a pure X11 “emoji keyboard”

Reminds me of Tom Scott's "Art of Bodge up" video where he attempts to make an emoji keyboard on Windows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIFE7h3m40U

It's funny at the end he says "and don't ever suggest me I use Linux, just don't." I felt he expected it to be really hard project on Linux, while iterally his project is a single keyboard layout file.

avidseekeron Can we trust Microsoft with Open Source? (2021)

Can we trust Facebook with Fediverse (2024)?

avidseekeron Can we trust Microsoft with Open Source? (2021)

That's what I've always thought of Open Source... until I found out Open Source projects that are not in the spirit of Open Source. Signal is a big example of that. It's hostile to forks, didn't publish its source code for a year and doesn't have a good documentation.

Same thing for Nvidia, big browser projects like Chromium, and Android. Many Chromium forks died because they couldn't keep up with upstream, except for ungoogled-chromium.