> look inside
> jail
(copied) freebsd is an operating system, similar to linux
"jails" or containers are a feature of freebsd (idk, i've never actually used it)
@teajaygrey I have somewhat more fantastical imagery come to mind at the concept, but you probably wouldn't care much about that.
When it comes to code; for whatever reason my mind is drifting towards the warez scene and keygens "scavenging" code from proprietary software to check to see if a key is valid or not. ;)
I have somewhat mixed feelings about those. They were popular here at the time, as they liberated paygated proprietary software from its paygate.
That still left it as proprietary software though, only as freeshare or shareware.
I don't think at the time it pushed out awareness of Free/Libre Software as one simply didn't hear about it at all here, so the alternative for users would mostly have been "just don't do the thing", but I'm not quite sure.
These days with the Internet and web having grown as they have, I would say it is counterproductive and potentially harmful to keep on developing them (with possible exceptions where Free/Libre options cannot exist for some reasons such as regulatory ones; which typically represents a different top-down harm instead and cracking the allowed option may not be the preferable way to fight back against it).
If it were good: Apple could have made use of it; they borrow code liberally from many other open source projects. FreeBSD is already upstream from OS X/macOS.
From the sound of it in your other technical post, they just aren't particularly amazing. They're a filesystem-specific namespace mechanism one kernel bug away from failing and less general & powerful than capsicum (which is more of a real security mechanism).
Maybe: jails just aren't good? Maybe, jails and incarceration and related metaphors, are intrinsically evil? I think they are.
I'm inclined to agree. They generally seem to be more, at best, of a way to avoid addressing problems. (Fixing society? Perish the thought.)
but having known folks who were both of those and not evil? I kind of think that they probably intentionally avoided the jails subsystem, for good reasons
Given the brainworms you describe some of the core maintainers as having, it does sound considerably less benign than name-related creative bankruptcy.