Re: Faking a TTY on a pipe/socketpair

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

On Fri, 13 Dec 2024 07:42:07 -0800, John Ames wrote:

This bears repeating. Why *anybody* decided to trust the judgement of
the person who gave us the jankiest of all the incredibly janky *nix
audio subsystems is beyond comprehension.

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There was no reason why you had to. You could easily have created your own
distro without any of his code in it, if you wanted to. Or become an
aficionado of one of the existing distros that did exactly that.
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Open Source is all about choice. If you can’t stand the thought of people
making different choices from you, you know what you can do.

If these people get paid by $big_name_companies, there's exactly nothing
individuals can do about that. Unless they happen to be rich enough that
they can waste a ton of money on their hobbies and then, they'd still
need to get a competent work force from somewhere.