Sujet : Re: The First Distro To Offer XLibre
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.advocacyDate : 01. Jul 2025, 01:13:18
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On Tue, 1 Jul 2025 04:22:53 +0530, Not Necessary wrote:
Computers internally can't understand plaintext; that is an abstraction
for humans.
More than that, plaintext is amenable to automated tools for finding
differences and applying those differences as patches. Those are things
you would not want to do just by eyeballing it -- not at the scale at
which many Open Source projects work these days.
The difference between “computers” (by which I assume you mean the
hardware) and the software that they run isn’t that clear-cut anyway. It’s
all abstract machine built on top of abstract machine, at least until you
get to the GUI. Then you’re stuck.
Re: The First Distro To Offer XLibre
Re: The First Distro To Offer XLibre