This is pretty much nonsense lol
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Language choice has nothing to do with foss vs proprietary.
Apple's preferred languages definitely have a smaller foss footprint than say c or rust or go
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it's definitely generalized, but I'd say I fit the disruptive open source type, though i respect the trad open source guys a lot.. But, like.. as of currently, I can't even call myself an actual programmer seeing as I write stories instead of code nowadays..
Definitely would like to balance the two someday.
Is bit keeper even still around anymore?
Love that the Guix logo is included!
I think there's a healthy amount of bs in there (Chrome, C# as traditional?), but some of it checks out. I like a mix of old and new but try to stay away from proprietary. Current favorites are probably Emacs, NixOS, and Rust.
Freedom is to proprietary as libertarian is to authoritarian. Tradition is to distruption as political right is to political left. Better would be for the x axis to be left-to-right disruption->tradition and the y axis to be bottom-to-top freedom->proprietary. So, rotated 90° counterclockwise and then mirrored left-to-right.
Emacs, icecat, guix, parabola, c, c++. Stallman. What are the others in that quadrant?
GNU Savannah and old thinkpads that can run with fully free software.
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What's the logo between Guix and C?
This whole chart should've been rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise.
Wouldn't that put Bill Gates on the "freedom" side?
No, I mean the whole chart should be rotated, including the labels. I want "freedom" to be across the bottom and "proprietary" to be across the top, so that it matches "libertarian" and "authoritarian" on the political compass.
("Tradition" and "disruption" don't map to "left" and "right" quite as well, but if it were exact it would just be the political compass instead of just analogous to it.)
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At work I'm the only dude that uses Windows and Linux. Everyone else uses Macs.
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Where does golang go?
Somehow it goes in both the cogdev and hypedev corners at the same time.
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Where's the drunken conglomeration that is Scala?
Btw. It's my favorite language
People with the skill level necessary to create such memes don't know what Scala is