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Right, doing a search through the git mailing list for the use of the word "porcelain" is fascinating. It's unfortunate some of those "porcelain" projects never finished.


... because none of the power users used them.


Heh. I think Linux on desktop it is like that, at least a bit; frequently, by the time someone could write a friendly GUI (or friendly CLI for that matter), they have little use for it.


That's a disturbingly insightful parable for everything from startups to linux/FOSS contributions.




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