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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 23:57:57 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:28:21 -0000 (UTC), Waldek Hebisch wrote:

> And once something gets wide adpotion compatibility concerns frequently
> mean that intrinsically better ideas have no chance.

Open Source projects seem less hidebound by that. Look at the way things 
have evolved, with old “traditional” *nix ideas being supplanted by new 
ones: netstat/ifconfig by iproute2, X11 by Wayland, various hacky audio 
things by first PulseAudio and then PipeWire, sysvinit by systemd (and 
other options) etc.

Just goes to show, there is no “vendor lock-in” in the Open Source world.