And even when they are not on paper, they are in fact.

It’s good to bug them about it, but last I checked they just didn’t want to.

DOpus is one thing I can’t really understand why is not ported yet. It comes from Amiga anyway, I understand they might have done a lot of OS-dependent things since moving to Windows, but it should be doable, no?

For audio specifically you might find FreeBSD easier to set up. As a DAW, not as a desktop in general.

ALSA+PulseAudio\Pipewire+JACK are kinda messy compared to newpcm+JACK .

I mean, there are open things about it. As in - TCP/IP is open. APIs to develop Windows programs are open.

In the same way as Solaris, HP/UX, Digital Unix and something else were open. Except Sun would even send OS sources in addition to documentation to customers interested in optimizing something they’d do, or so I’ve heard.

But the “most open” thing looks like 2003 “get the facts” style propaganda, except back then they had technical competencies, now it’s purely the oligopoly.

SPARC

OpenWindows is not that. OpenWindows is the best thing ever with OpenLook. I’d really want OpenLook for 64bit Intel

Kill Google, kill Apple, kill Meta, kill Amazon. I’m not sure whether killing Apple is necessary - despite their problems, they at least have an honest business model (of profiting off a cult). I think yes, split them too.

Every piece of software is insecure, because people make errors and mistakes.

When a law of nature prevents us from doing what we’d want, the right decision is to adapt our approaches.

That would return us back to modularity, Unix philosophy and all such stuff.

Yes, I think Xorg wouldn’t survive the filter, but it wouldn’t be the only thing.