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That's just blatantly racist. As a counter example look at kitty which is pushing terminal standards forward which is written by an Indian

Licencing exists for enterprise support if you want or need it, but it is absolutely not required for linux unlike windows.

Microsoft also charges per core for a licence, linux does not

I think (and I could be misremembering here) is that Emby started off as C# and both Plex and Jellyfin are forks of it. Also a lot of folks in this sphere seem to be on windows as their primary platform, and C# along with visual studio is pretty on that stack

Anyone know any alternatives in the prosumer space? Mikrotik?

Is that screenshot at the end real? 27 thousand pounds for a machine with only a 1 TB ssd?

Edit: Nvm didnt see the quantity 10

Python is a really bad example of cold blooded software. There is constant breaking changes with it (both runtime and tooling). So much so that the author still has to use python2 which has been EOL'd for quite a while.

A much better example would be something like go or java where 10 year old code still runs fine with their modern tooling. Or an even better example, perl, where 30 year old code still runs fine to this day