There is an MSVC specific preprocessor directive deep inside the code that formats your C: drive if u attempt to build it with MSVC

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    Oh, now that is a good bit. It goes against the entire FOSS ideal, which is probably why we haven’t yet seen a Linux only program that Winblows users actually want, that’s hostile to them like that, but it’d be funny.


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      Not necessarily. See Hare for example.

      We understand that a well-designed system must be based on free software. We cannot effectively study, understand, debug, or improve, the underlying operating system if it is non-free. We actively work with the source code for the systems on which we depend, and we are not interested in supporting any platforms for which this is not possible.

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        Hmm. Makes a lot of sense. I’ve heard a lot of people say that the problem is then you’re telling someone else what software they should or shouldn’t use and that’s also a freedom issue, but that never made any sense to me, because… yeah. How can you write completely open software for a platform that itself isn’t open? I’m not a programmer, closest I’ve come is changing variables in text files for video game mods that didn’t have an ingame settings UI, following directions on the download page, but even I can see that much.


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