alt Hacker News> In the pre-cloud days, open source worked - authors distributed their software, and everyone "hosted" it for themselves (i.e. ran it on their own PC)
This is just rose tinted vision of the past. None of the software of the past had the capability, reliability or robustness of modern sass.
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marknsikora • today at 1:12 AM
Yea. When people talk about how simple things were in the past, I think they oblivious to the fact we were all writing out X11 configs by hand and having them break in all sort of strange and interesting ways. Open source has always been very "I gave it to you for free, I'm not going to hold your hand".
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em-bee • today at 12:27 AM
that statement does not make any claims about capability, reliability or robustness. the claims are rather cost and independence.
I'm rather baffled by that statement, with docker its...as easy as its ever been