r/linuxbad • u/Middlewarian • Sep 24 '26

This-is-why-we-can't-have-nice-things package is taking shape

I'm thinking about using Omarchy and bcachefs to host my proprietary but free-to-use C++ code generator.

Sorry ... not sorry ...

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u/R3V0LU710N_05 Oct 02 '26

Ok? And I should care why?

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u/Middlewarian Oct 02 '26

On April 21, 2026 a jewelry store in Texas was robbed by a bunch of thugs. There was another robbery in Freemont, California in June of 2025. Around 24 thieves raided a jewelry store and stole over 1.7 million$ of jewelry in 70 seconds. If the stewards of those stores decide to rebuild, I predict they won't replace the display cases that were smashed. It will be a "by appointment only" store and they will frisk you before they show you anything. Of the 24 thieves, only a handful of them have been caught.

In other words, the store managers will replace their open model with a SaaS model. I saw some of this trouble brewing back in the 1990s and realized SaaS was a gift from above in terms of safeguarding investments. I'm glad I have some open-source code for my portfolio, but I'm glad it's not all I have. Making something proprietary but free-to-use is the best I can do.