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Terminal = freedom
- Locking things behind terminal is not.
  
  It's not locking behind terminal. It's just not implementing gui. Which is completely valid since that takes time and effort
  
  Also, writing a GUI wrapper for a terminal-only program is much easier than writing a terminal wrapper for a GUI-only program.
  
  Anyone worth any kind of respect writes the API for an application/CTA first and then uses the same API to power the GUI so it can also be used as a CLI tool.
  Everyone is happy, no elitism or wars.
  
  What do you mean by "CTA"? How don't see how "Call to Action" is relevant in this context, seeing how it's more of a UX design concern than a technical thing. Or does it have some other meaning that does not appear in Google's first page of results and that ChatGPT is not aware of, and yet "Anyone worth any kind of respect" already implements?
  
  People are free to write a GUI for it, assuming it's free software. And you are free to not use a terminal and use any GUI alternatives.
  I mean, locking things behind a GUI definitely isn't freedom. GUIs are very limited compared to most terminal interfaces.
  
  it's just very hard to make a usable ui, and extremely easy to make a great cli interface
  
  Are there programs that are locked behind a terminal?
  
  Are you kidding? There are literally hundreds of commands in the terminal which don't have a symmetrical GUI application baked into the OS.
  Why would you create a whole GUI for a simple command such as scp and tail. Literally half of Linux is solely in the terminal
  
  Oh ok. I guess we have a different definition of what "locked" means. One could definitely make a GUI for simple commands. Who knows, maybe some students somewhere already have.

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