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The Free Software hardliner, the corporation, and the shotgun wedding
“To be really honest, a plugin system is actually at a very high level a scream for help, a way of saying, “This codebase is too beastly! We need to export a simplified interface for developers to be able to contribute more easily!” Plugin interfaces are admissions of guilt. They are unconscious confessions that it was a mistake to discard the tool chain architecture.”
