| ▲ | beeflet 5 days ago |
| I suppose it depends on the portability of the mega-files. It could be an output from a complex non-portable program. |
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| ▲ | burnt-resistor 5 days ago | parent [-] |
| Don't make or allow complex, non-portable programs. There's no reason for this. Simplicity and Turing completeness means it can always be written in something understandable and maintainable. |
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| ▲ | lunar-whitey 5 days ago | parent [-] | | Simple portable programs that perform nontrivial tasks are expensive. Open source overcomes this where possible by socializing the cost. | | |
| ▲ | emchammer 5 days ago | parent [-] | | I use open-source OpenBSD is because the entire source tree is small enough for me to understand and manipulate. I guess I expect that it is all human-generated. This unwieldy, proprietary chunk makes me want to ditch graphics support in order to keep my source tree significantly smaller. | | |
| ▲ | lunar-whitey 5 days ago | parent [-] | | After cleaning up the sources, the whole chip would still be an unwieldy proprietary chunk - you would just be able to ignore it more easily. |
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