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> I find it fairly unfair to all those devs that spent years making open source tools that are used by every single sysadmin to say that you want to write "soft
by stonogo 11y ago
> I find it fairly unfair to all those devs that spent years making open source tools that are used by every single sysadmin to say that you want to write "software that sucks less".
I am one of those systems administrators. The fact that my job exists at all is 100% down to the fact that software sucks. If it didn't suck, systems would administer themselves. It does nobody any good to pretend otherwise out of some kind of abstract politeness.
- gouggoug 11y agoThat's a nice strawman. My argument is not that software doesn't suck, nor that we should pretend it doesn't. However, recognizing that other's people work, upstream of yours, contributed to the "betterness/sucklessness" of yours is, IHMO, important. But this is purely subjective (therefore the IHMO). Now, the /philosophy page of suckless.org objectively disregards this; by not acknowledging it in the first place.
- stonogo 11y agoThat's because it's wholly irrelevant. The software sucks. This is the whole of the message. It's not important why it can be done better if nobody ever does it better. It's ironic you're complaining about straw men while criticizing a technology project because you don't like the way they talk about technology, completely ignoring the technology itself. It's an unproductive gripe, unlikely to better anyone's situation.