People make fun of vi because it’s hard to get out, but it says right there: “esc : w q”. Whereas getting out of emacs apparently requires the gradual realization over the course of decades that all of your heroes are monsters and the ideological basis of the liberatory movements you championed in your youth are inherently flawed and futile exercises
@glyph People always criticize :wq but ZZ is just sitting right there, ignored.
@lafe ok look I’m willing to say that free software is a pointless scam perpetuated by out of touch ideologues with an oversimplified and incorrect approach to the interface between technology and society but I know better than to touch *this* third rail
@glyph I'm honestly curious about your view on this point, flamers be damned. It's not hard to argue that FSF was a failure, but why do you think free software proper is a scam? Is it from a technical perspective like "goes too far" (à la OSI) or "doesn't go far enough" (à la anticapitalist software), or is it because it's not possible to decouple it from he who shall not be named without cognitive dissonance?
I've been pondering "what is to be done?" for a while, in light of the disarray the FOSS community is in (if one still exists), and only drawing blanks; so I'd appreciate a different perspective on this matter.
