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.

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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.