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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • Linux is a tool that big corporate entities have profited greatly from for many years, and will continue to. Same with BSD, Apache, Docker, MySQL, Postgres, SSH…

    Valve, Sys76, Framework, etc. Are proving that using Linux to serve an end user market is also profitable, and are capable of supporting enterprise use-cases.

    I understand that there may be specific problems to solve wrt improving adoptability, usability, compatibility, etc., but Linux is doing more than ok within the context of the FOSS ecosystem (and increasingly without).

    Your thinking is slightly skewed, IMHO. Linux doesn’t have an inherent incentive to compete with MacOS or MS, and if it did, it would be subject to the same pressures that encourage bad behavior like spying on users, creating walled gardens, and so forth.






  • It is pretty insane how outsized Trump’s influence is.

    • He sank a bipartisan immigration bill developed, in part, by some of the most conservative members of Congress, with the sole purpose of denying a victory to the Whitehouse.
    • He and his most fervent cultists still refuse to concede that he lost the 2020 election.
    • Politics of fear and spite, afflicting large swaths of the electorate with such.
    • Democrats have been “in power” for… almost 4 years. It’s not a mystery, it’s simple arithmetic!