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The things people do to sabotage free software
(thelemmy.club)
Post funny things about programming here! (Or just rant about your favourite programming language.)
If you think I have any interest in personal squabbles over 8 lines of code, I don't.
That meme at the start was directed at your argument, not you in particular; those are not the same thing. I apologise if it came across as personal to you, but it wasn't meant to be. Notice how I immediately went to discuss the actual topic with no further "personal attacks" until you decided to get pissy with your next comment. Had you just shrugged and actually wrote your counterpoint instead, that would've been the end of it. You didn't. Just... you know, if you wanna go around being snarky on the internet, be prepared to receive some snark back as well.
With that said, I think the argument about uutils' license is a much more sound one. As a matter of fact I expressed the same concern a over year ago, albeit in a much less elaborate fashion: https://lem.lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/23171431/13400085 (Which of course I didn't expect you to dig up because that'd be absurd)
I'm not a big fan of uutils, believe it or not. It's not nearly as stable as they tout it to be, they broke
cprecently as an example, and it's is generally not a step in the right direction IMO. Still, the fact that uutils may be ill conceived doesn't invalidate the fact that relying on public, official, C APIs is perfectly reasonable. Both can be true.Had this post been about the license instead of "oh look the hypocrites use C APIs in the end" as if there was any alternative, we wouldn't be having this conversation.