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A ubiquitous public domain library is a proprietary database now?

• clankyclanker 6y ago
  No, but it is non-transparent and can’t be edited with a text editor, without being unpacked and repacked like Fossil. Yet another layer of indirection is the last thing I want when I’m in a hurry to write down a thought before I forget it. Of course that can be overcome with practicing the tooling, but that’s also a non-negligible transition cost.
• geoelectric 6y ago
  Yes, because the database is the custom schema + the data being managed by the library, not the library itself. The library is properly an example of a DBMS: database management system, it's only "a database" informally to lay users.