WAIT LET ME IN I WANT TO HAVE THE LAST WORD IS IT TOO LATE!!!

That might have been an apt name at first, but the UX has come along way since the early days.

And thank god for that!

They're basically like the elves in Tolkien's world: they're the elder race that is wise in a lot of ways, but also have a lot of flaws.

Why do it that way instead of basing it on something that already exists like LibreOffice?

It would have helped a lot if GNU weren't such a weird acronym whose pronunciation is not at all obvious.

Thank you for introducing needed some levity into the discussion. 😉

Those are all good points.

We’ve played this game with browser engines and we find ourselves in a world with no viable community-controlled browser.

Where would you say Firefox fits into this? (This question is not a gotchya; I am genuinely having trouble seeing whether it is a valid counter-example or not.)

I was responding to the following paragraph in the article:

We used to get proof-of-thought for free because producing a patch took real effort. Now that writing code is cheap, verification becomes the real proof-of-work. I mean proof of work in the original sense: effort that leaves a trail: careful reviews, assumption checks, simulations, stress tests, design notes, postmortems. That trail is hard to fake. [emphasis mine] In a world where AI says anything with confidence and the tone never changes, skepticism becomes the scarce resource.

I am a bit wary that the trail of verification will continue to be so "hard to fake".

Yeah, the transition from the third frame to the fourth frame just doesn't make sense as currently depicted; why would people playing video games suddenly start to revolt?

However, if the third frame were to depict rich men getting richer as you suggest, then the revolt in the fourth frame would make more sense.

Nor will the cult of Rust haters.