It’s not reasonable to assume that most people are going to self-host, or even how to go about doing that if they wanted to, but people still deserve a right to privacy and products that support that. I think that’s what they were trying to say

I think it’s to draw a distinction from the similar “milliard”, which means “billion” in British English but has fallen out of fashion.

I do too. To be clear, I did NOT mean that we could go without it today. What I meant was that if we didn’t have it to start with, things would’ve likely still developed albeit much more slowly.

I’ll also preface this by saying I definitely slightly misread everything before and so my reply was kinda crappy

It wouldn’t necessarily collapse (it wasn’t exactly suffering before FOSS stuff “hit the shelves”, so to speak) but the gatekeeping that comes with it would certainly cause a tremendous amount of stagnation

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Counterargument: it ruined https://youtu.be/Vx5prDjKAcw and that’s not cool.

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I’ve unironically been using this font ever since I found it a year or two ago. I find it makes it so much easier to read everything. I’ve even suggested it to others. It’s actually a decent font.