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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Back in the before times we called that a ‘dividend’ and the company would pay you one of they did business well and made profit.

    Then the dark times came and the ‘speculators’ arrived, caring not for the dividend but for the price itself. Expecting it to go ever on up. The dividend was forgotten.

    Business didn’t have to be good and profitable it just had to have ‘promise’ and ‘venture’. They propped each other up, made their prices up. Each leaning on each other with no foundation each nor to share. They cared not, for they had a ‘system’ and means already their own to sustain themselves.

    The people looked on in horror, knowing the ‘bubble’ must burst in the air and not settle gently to the ground and rest easy. Power they had not, only the ‘sight’ of their incoming doom.



  • Second System Syndrome otherwise know as ‘throwing the baby out with the bath water’.

    X11 is old, extraordinarily old for software. As such, the problems it solves are not really problems anymore.

    Rather than gradually evolving X11, into say X12, the whole thing got dumped on the trash pile and a brand new entirely incompatible thing called Wayland was started from scratch.

    Replacing software with literally hundreds (if not thousands) of person-years of development devoted to it over its lifetime is hard. Which meant that Wayland had an unfeasibly steep hill to climb, as such it’s early days were tumultuous and it got a bit of a bad rap.

    There is far more (qualitative and quantitative) history than will fit into this margin comment.