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Why make it part of the OS, though?
Because it should be. Because you don't want ZOMG FREEDOM, a gazillion clipboards that don't work together. I call that "useless shit". I want to go to any web browser, select Unicode HTML, then go to a console application that's currently running in text mode outside the GUI, paste a plain text representation of it, and send a picture to the clipboard from there so I can paste it in a graphics editing program. I call this "useful feature". But OMG, it's your freedom to use one clipboard or another, lolz! You can even compile it from source with -O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops!! Isn't that awesome?