<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@sgillies" class="u-url mention">@<span>sgillies</span></a></span> lmao</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> I have *thoughts*.</p><p>I&#39;ve recently been writing endlessly in this general area, but still haven&#39;t been able to turn it into something cohesive and digestible.</p><p>I think a core issue with *both* these terms and the surrounding frameworks is that:<br />- The apparent objectives are not the actual objectives.<br />- The frameworks don&#39;t accomplish the apparent objectives.<br />- The frameworks don&#39;t accomplish the actual objectives either.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@sgillies" class="u-url mention">@<span>sgillies</span></a></span> FWIW, I might be the only human alive who&#39;s visited the Welk Birthplace musuem (North Dakota), The Welk Resort Theater (Branson), and Graceland all on the same road trip. AMA.</p>

<p>Also re <a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc/114123472141667076" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@mcc/114123472</span><span class="invisible">141667076</span></a> i gotta get real for a second</p><p>- Open Source: In English, this is a generic term for software following the Open Source Definition, such as would facilitate community development of a piece of code</p><p>- Free Software: These words communicate nothing at all. No one uses this phrase for any reason, and if you attempt to use this phrase, no one will correctly understand what you mean.</p><p>I&#39;m not quite as serious about this as I am the other post. But also, I am right.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@sgillies" class="u-url mention">@<span>sgillies</span></a></span> 🤔</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> For the honky tonk piano playing? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NeYRrWGj3A" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=3NeYRrWGj3A</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> Fixed it for you Liam.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> Simple repetition with slight variations can be calming.</p>

<p>Idle pondering: Why the fuck did my parents watch so much Lawrence Welk?</p>