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2025-08-28 15:40 UTC

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @aparrish@friend.camp I think that's awesome, but it hasn't gained any mainstream traction to speak of (like python has). Just saying: I've coded in all of Hypercard, Pascal, Delphi, python, and TCL/tk, btw.

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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange 2025-08-28 15:46

@d1@autistics.life @aparrish@friend.camp Yup, I've grumbled a lot about this. The Free Software movement largely missed the point, by almost never creating tools that made end users care about the rights that they had. MS Office has more end-user programming support than almost anything from the GNU project (with the exception of EMACS, and that's only because EMACS was a reimplementation of a Lisp Machine editor). You don't make Free Software successful by using licenses that require a law degree to understand, you make Free Software successful by writing software that makes end users exercise their rights to modify and distribute software and then complain when they don't have those rights in other software that they use.

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