RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/117582291834400512
Here’s a thought worth saying out loud.
…and of course I think immediately if TeX, whose version number does not just increase forever but instead asymptotically approaches pi, on the principle that software should •converge• rather than •grow•.
(The software dates from 1978. The latest release is version 3.141592653, released in 2021.)
The myth that software needs constant updates has utterly undermined the principles of free software and immensely empowered sloppers and other bad actors.
The whole idea was supposed to be that, once you get something released as free software, you have it forever, and don't have to care about the people who made it selling out and betraying you.
That was like the whole distinction from proprietary software, where we knew it would always end that way.
And somehow we let the worst people in out spaces convince us that we have to accept the same from free software.
