I'm really happy someone said it.

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RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano/115547315643919873

I'm really happy someone said it. I have felt really excluded in this environment and I could never really put my finger on it. A decade ago, I contributed a number of patches for an open source database project under my real name. It was one of the only enjoyable experiences I ever had with open source, because the database was a niche project, designed for a very particular kind of dataset, and the author immediately thanked me for the patches. He was clearly overworked and grateful. This is a feeling I now work hard to reproduce in my little cloister, where we'll keep working until we have something ready to explain itself. It feels like a shame that it has to be that way, because the second you give something a face, you're expected to compete.

Monoculture is a death spiral. I want to create things that reflects specific virtues and use cases I care about. I take a really dim view of people telling me to do something marketable. I want it to satisfy specific criteria. It's driven by me, not a market.

[tionisla@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@somebody back then when I joined a little project in the mid nineties we coded mainly on Linux (RH and so on and me on Slackware, iirc)... But portability was always important. (parisc, SPARC, iirc)

Among the people for implementing support for other Platforms and OS someone from FreeBSDland helped to add support and I was happy/surprised to find out when I started with BSD it's still maintained and updated in FreeBSD's ports and pkgs by some gold souls (kudos for that, mates!)

And another "Beastie boy" massively helped to test to improve things. I think that's key. Working together without building borders or artificial boundaries across platforms.

btw good blog post @stefano Thanks!

[stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@Tionisla thank you!