• im_fine_sandy@nord.pub
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            <great thing happens>

            Moaners: this is terrible because there’s no guarantee it will remain this way in perpituity

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          it’s not a ‘loophole’. it’s not an exception, either. it’s a time bomb. if it becomes widespread, it’s a literal death sentence for linux and foss on users’ desktops.

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        That’s… not too far from how I got into it. My parents didn’t know how to find porn, music, or tv shows my my linux systems

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        I remember installing Ubuntu when I was like 14 because my parents had so much shit on the xp partition they used. This was on dial-up and Ubuntu 3 or 4 or something.

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      There are plenty of people at Microsoft that also help support OSS. A number of developers there also frequently contribute to FreeBSD.

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        True but that’s like saying that your spleen is you. I met that guy he’s an asshole or maybe I was thinking of the sphincter. But I digress. There absolutely are people, good people at Microsoft that do contribute a lot to free and open source projects. But Microsoft as a company has been horrible for 40 years. Never good for anyone unless perhaps you are working for them?