BOOTLICKER

I feel like sometimes we don’t give ourselves enough credit in the free software world.

Fuck, look at our steady march to glory with package managers.

First, like a mighty Buddha, we dreamed up the concept of a package manager.

Then, we awoke: Lo, like the mighty world creators we are, we constructed not just one package manager, but many.

Then, so far as i am concerned, we perfected the best package managers, the transactional ones.

Looking behind us, we see Microsoft computers locking themselves down in their very firmware, riddled with spyware. ‘Microsoft Teams’, you hear whispered from that direction.