Bizarre, I guess their business has been running on hopes and dreams instead of money for the past 30 years lol.

This is a really neat way to directly bribe a government official

I also tend to grin when I’m getting my dick sucked.

Just so everyone is aware, if jury nullifies this trial we will see the Supreme Court decide that nullification is no longer legal and is a criminal offense.

That is where the country is right now.

Yes but people will pay redhat Linux to use a distro with support. Also almost the entire US internet server infrastructure runs on Linux.

So yeah a company can provide an open source product with commercial support

Good detail added, I did not know that. But they’re still doing so with a much smaller payout than if they tried to compete the way a US capitalist would through a closed source full ownership model.

Because an angry and stupid population votes GOP.

It’s simple really. People vote on culture war issues, and respect posture more than reason, we are a weak species that is easily manipulated, moreso when you gut education.

He’s not wrong. He was speaking in the implied scope of capitalism. Where u can’t do something that cheap because without the ability to hit a huge payout for investors noone will fund you.

We’re just seeing that capitalism can’t compete with an economy that can produce stuff without making investors rich.

Yeah you’re right, I couldn’t remember the exact wording only the general sentiment, so i went with something close enough lol

Sadly though this was never going to be avoided, sure they’re leaning hard into conservative cult nonsense, but they were still on a downword optics trajectory. Its impossible not to have this happen in capitalism, it will always be inevitable that enshitifcation happens to milk profit from anywhere it can, and that will always look bad.

One of my favorite lines from early on in trumps rise to cult leader was “Conservatives would let Trump shit in their mouth just to watch liberals become disgusted”

Somehow I imagine that Microsoft might be involved in this, most likely through some quid pro quo to pimp its users for facebook. Its either that or its just that facebook sees linux as a threat as its not data harvesting like microsoft and facebook are, but I find it hard to believe that facebook would do this purely to protect the closed source market without also getting microsoft to pitch in someway. Why would facebook want a free operating system that doesnt harvest data to exist? Id be worried too.

I feel like I’m having a conversation with a speak and spin that has one response lol

No, it doesn’t fight fascism. If you have a socialist country there are things about the system that inherently make it harder for fascism to pop up, but this is prevention. Also if fascism is already in your country, socialism isn’t doing a god damn thing because it doesn’t exist.

Socialism is preventative care on a healthy or mildly sick system, it is not the major surgery needed to remove active cancer.

This needs to be made more visible on github, like a little tag near all the share data under about. But I guess the only way that would work was people self reporting their CLA’s. And not sure how keen microsoft would be on a consumer protection change

Over 20 years ago I started to see the many problems with the world. Over the course of those ~20 years I saw more and more problems begin, none of them are ever resolved. There was a point where I believed I wouldn’t live long enough to see the full ramifications, but now it seems like those problems are compounding faster and faster.

I agree with you entirely except for this.

“Congress is deciding if {company} will be banned” is something we should have all picked up on as being absurd and unacceptable

People are out their believing Elon’s Nazi salute was an “Accidentally awkward gesture”. If we are talking about stuff likely for people to notice, then the difference between “congress bans company” and “congress bans an action” might as well be invisible and only exist in the 7th dimension lol.

We have been post critical thinking in the US since around the time that facebook did what morning talk radio was doing but better. We decide everything on feels now, reason has ceased to exist.

How would you determine if a thing is true open source, or capitalism masquerading as open source like you’ve described, if you were to just stumble onto a software randomly and wanted to check?

What fucking year is it. We havnt associated antivax with hippies in yeeeeaaars, not since facebook was weaponized against the uneducated. Is this image actually from the early 2000s?