navDend0@beehaw.orgtoFree and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•In your opinion, which FOSS software is by many considered "old" or "obsolete", but are in fact, in your opinion, in many ways better than the newer alternatives?
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1 year agovi, lynx, mutt, and of course X11 > wayland
though also controversially, I’ll take systemD over sysVinit
this is an interesting (infuriating) one: most asthma meds are generic, but were re-formulated with a different propellant that was less harmful to the atmosphere. Despite the actual medicine not changing, they got their patents renewed and the generics got taken off the market
a total failure of the system