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Design failures

Name: Anonymous 2010-02-17 2:25

For example, all X11 clients crash when the server goes down.

When was the last time your browser crashed because a server was down? Or your irc client? Or whatever else there is except for X11 programs? Yeah, that's right.

Why they wouldn't just wait for the server to come up again and reconnect is beyond me. I mean it's a client-server system, so what's the point of not making use of it? Sure, you can connect from some remote machine and play around for a bit, but it's fucking useless when all your programs crash once you disconnect!!!

What the fuck were they thinking?

Name: Anonymous 2010-02-19 9:28

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LGPL permits all the essential freedoms that allow users to help oneself and cooperate as part of a community.

Of course it doesn't -- as pointed out earlier it doesn't permit one to reuse the code under the 2-clause BSD, therefore the flow of code is completely restricted in the "LGPL projects -> BSD projects" direction.

Arguing that it's BSD users' fault and that they can change their license if they really want the code is like arguing that meth is free if you agree to do blowjobs. Yes, it's free as in doesn't cost any money, but you have to suck dicks to get it. If you are not particularly partial to gobbling mouthfuls of smelly cocks then it is not free for you, not really.

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