I've been only able to read this IT note today due to band with constraints.
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I've been only able to read this IT note today due to band with constraints. It read like a Stephen King short. Horrific!
IMHO, In my humble opinion, the company involved used tactics that I can describe as blatantly criminal.
I have some stories and I may talk about one in another post, using similar of obfuscation techniques
You would be wise to read this story at least twice.
Read between the lines.
Observe that the company was selling open source services yet used criminal tactics to keep people locked in
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https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/10/08/the-email-they-shouldnt-have-read/
#Story #Stefano #horrible #ethics #unethical #OpenSource #programming #vendor #lockin
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@otte_homan they don't need to. They're gonna get you on the minor version releases, too.
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When building CLI tools, shell completion usually treats each option in isolation. But sometimes valid values for one option depend on another—like branch names depending on which repository you're targeting.
Wrote about how I solved this in Optique, a type-safe CLI parser for TypeScript.
https://hackers.pub/@hongminhee/2026/optique-context-aware-cli-completion
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@rl_dane I also work on a very large Perl project, and will continue to do so for maybe the rest of my days (I'm 25+ years in, why stop now?).
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@rl_dane yes, actually, see my recent threads about Go. I use it 100% of the time for web apps when I have a choice, and have done so for the past couple of years (and a lot lately). I'm also porting my old stuff that I have control over that's in Python. I have grown tired of the beatings. If it has dependencies or needs to be packaged I'm not building it in Python.
But, I maintain a bunch of Python packages for my job, so it's not really a choice I have for the stuff I'm working on right now.
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@rl_dane if only there were some middle ground. Alas, impossible.
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It's a passion for tracebacks. Soul mates. Love at first sight.
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I wish I loved anything as much as the Python community loves breaking backward compatibility.
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@evan I don't think there's been any Canadian political leader who's received much hero worship — maybe Pierre Trudeau? They all have major flaws, Sir John A. notably so.
(I contrast this with the arguably blasphemous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apotheosis_of_Washington ; I can't even imagine anyone doing something similar for any Canadian politician.)
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In Germania tornano a provarci con l'open source'nDopo varie iniziative fallite (Munchen e Bassa Sassonia) i politici: "Non sperimentate, è meglio andare sul sicuro con #Microsoft!"'nLo Stato #Schleswig-Holstein mostra che l' #opensource è un'alternativa.
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