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Turns out attempting to pay the bills on unix philosophy didn't go very far.
by pixl97 9mo ago
Turns out attempting to pay the bills on unix philosophy didn't go very far.
- esseph 9mo agoMan, that's a weird saying. Very weird. "Unix Philosophy", which many of us wouldn't be here if it didn't exist, wasn't designed with any sort of money in mind. That's like complaining that the company that picks up your residential trash is a shit company for not reducing your travel time to work.
- bionsystem 9mo agoMaybe not a shit company but a trash company indeed.
- perrygeo 9mo agoWat? Android, Linux, BSD (incl iOS and Mac) absolutely dominate the market in terms of mind share and deployment. I can't think of another philosophy that is so directly, causally responsible for billions of dollars of realized value. It sounds like you're parroting the corporate line of the early 80s. "Making money directly selling software artifacts is the only way to win." Which, as we know in retrospect, was a completely failed strategy, steamrolled by companies which... wait for it... adopted more flexible technology based on the Unix philosophy.