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RE: Tormenting my Wife via Open Source Software
What you say about the code they have taken is a big true, several "boxes" indeed runs linux, minix or bsd in a way, and the code is closed.
Apache http server may had it's better days a long time ago, but that foundation develop and support lots of high level projects besides their http server.
I think the limit is still in the hardware, but i can't see in the near future a way out to proprietary hardware. Peak oil will smash our way of life soon, we have no time to develop free and open hardware, we (the people) don't have the skills to make a simple usable transistor.
Hardware is definitely a tricky one. The Talos POWER9 stuff looks interesting, as does some of the RISC stuff.. but overall it is definitely not there yet.
Ahh well, we do the best with what we have, I guess.
That's true. We can't do much more. I enjoyed your post, we all lived (or still living) that process your wife is in, is an universal FOSS story.
Indeed. An oasis for the mind. It is so easy to fire up a web browser, think "what OSS rabbit hole shall I fall down today", and get started on something. Ansible was my latest foray into the unknown.. fun stuff.