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markus_zhang
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Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and tas...
That's the reality of modern software development: creating new shits on top of old shits. They don't have the time to clean up the old shits. I guess we have to accept that.
nitrogen
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If copyright terms didn't last so long, then other people could take the old layers and "compost" them into fertilizer for new code.
selfhoster11
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I think you have an excellent point.
marcodiego
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only if the code was available.
hughrr
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The problem is if it was a zoo this deep in shit it’d be shut down from an animal welfare point of view.
Perhaps we should consider software welfare as well.
“Clean up your shit or we’ll fine you”
DaiPlusPlus
on Sept 4, 2021
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Aka “technical debt”
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