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		couchand on March 12, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I no longer maintain my Emacs projects on Sourcehu... To some extent there's a horses for courses argument here: which projects stand to benefit from a high proportion of drive-by contributions? Which projects can appropriately leverage nuanced textual discussion? If the Linux kernel had been hosted on GitHub from the start it would have turned out very different.

oldandboring on March 12, 2024 [–]

> If the Linux kernel had been hosted on GitHub from the start it would have turned out very different.

Of course I get the point you're making and agree, but this is still an amusing statement to read :)

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