Hey mods/dang, can you put this back on the front page please? No reason to bounce it. Important licensing discussion and relevant!

It's not revisionist. The entire NeXT codebase was literally compiled with GCC.

There's even a funny story in there about how NeXT almost bypassed the GPL until GNU got Lawyers involved since them using a loophole would be very bad for peoples freedom

Just browse with JavaScript off, or with NoScript. People think it's inconvenient, but it's really not.

I love what Microsoft is doing. Keep it up!

The market loves it too, MSFT is up 6% this week. There are likely other things that drive this but my hope is that the share price is increasing on the idea that these patches are so disastrous that even Microsoft should be able to see that their current strategy isn’t delivering a good product.

The slop must flow!

Not a single mention of General Magic or Magic Cap, the software running on the tablet? Smh.

Copyright licenses are not one word. They are written with intent, and usually at minimum that intent is to credit the original author.

CALEA has given the FBI backdoor access to all telecom traffic for the past 30 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_...

If you're using Microsoft in 2026, that's on you. You can't be mad at the lawnmower that cut your foot off, it's just doing what it does.

You can absolutely be mad at a lawnmower that cut your foot off as there isn't any scenario where your feet should be at risk during normal operation of a regular lawnmower. Unless I intentionally try to insert my foot into the blades somehow, such dangerous faults would be entirely on the manufacturer.

Now if you proceed with he same horrible lawnmower and cut off your other foot, then that might be on you.

While the analogy is being stretched, same applies here - if Microsoft makes terrible footguns, then that's on Microsoft even if the users should have stopped using Microsoft by now.

> If you're using Microsoft in 2026, that's on you.

Not necessarily. I don't use Microsoft on my personal machines, but my employer forces me to use it at work.

It's not on me, it's on my employer, which forces me to use a laptop with MS Windows installed. Sure, I ssh into a machine running Linux where I do real work, but still.

Also - lots of people are used to it and habits die hard, regardless of technical merit etc.

Microsoft is staffed by highly educated adults. They have agency to do better and actually serve their paying customers well. They choose not to.

No, Microsoft is staffed by over-educated conformists who were specifically hired to maintain that empire.

Their problem is that they've cultivated a customer base who are ok with Windows for 30+ years.

Because the World Economic Forum, where our political and corporate leaders meet and groom each other, point-blank advertised "you will own nothing and be happy."

We’ve been raised to believe “experiences make you happy, not things.”

Everything as a service is the modern marketing ideal.