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I think quite a few people are missing the use of the term "harmful".

His words are from a developer standpoint with unix philosophy.

One tool does one thing well, those tools are licensed in a way that means you can contribute safely without being a lawyer and the code is not needlessly complex.

The Suckless crew have software that suits such philosophies perfectly, check out dwm and ii.

http://suckless.org/

His ideas are not for your grandma, they're for elitists.




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