• im_fine_sandy@nord.pub
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            5 hours ago

            <great thing happens>

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

            • FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              2 hours ago

              This isn’t a great thing happening, this is a slight dent being put in a terrible thing happening.

              Do not confuse the two.

        • adarza@lemmy.ca
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          8 hours ago

          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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        11 hours ago

        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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        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?