The technology behind the registry is fine (which is what I think @VinesNFluff meant)

But it’s execution in Windows was ass

In theory, a configuration manager with DB-like abilities (to maintain relationships, schematic integrity, and to abstract the file storage details), isn’t a bad idea

But the registry as it is today is pure pain

I’ve been running Linux for 4 years, but this still hurts to read

The downvotes aren’t surprising; it’s not a very popular idea

I still think it’s an idea worth exploring, though

Businesses won’t support Linux if they can’t sell something, and it gives us access to the code

We should have more “source available, but you still need to pay for it” licenses

Best of both worlds, the company still gets to sell a product, and we can inspect the source, or even submit PR’s (and maybe get a little kickback (but that’s pie in the sky))

Granted, it’s super easy to remove the license restrictions with the source available

Why wait?

To be fair, it wasn’t something most of us were thinking about in the early 2000’s

Then Google became ubiquitous, to the point where we didn’t question it. Like cell service