> While the idea of being able to trivially share code worldwide is appealing, so far it seems to encourage shittier software more than anything else, and the b

> While the idea of being able to trivially share code worldwide is appealing, so far it seems to encourage shittier software more than anything else, and the benefit of sharing trivially seems to be defeated by the downsides that bloat and bad software bring with it. A lot of projects would simply not exist without it. Linux, comes to mind. I guess one might take the position that "Windows is fine" but would there ever have been even competition for Windows? Another example, everyone would be rolling their own crypto without openssl, and that would mean software that's yet a lot more insecure than what we have. Writing software with any cryptography functionality in mind would be the privilege of giant companies only (and still suck a lot more than what we have). There's a lot more things. The internet and software in general would be set back ~20years. Even with all the nostalgia I can muster, that seems like a much worse situation than today.