It’s been in all of your comments where you brought it up. You know you said it.

Actually, 100% of what I said is true. Let’s go through it together

Microsoft does not own systemd

True.

The closest thing to an “owner” the project has would be Red Hat (not owned by MS), but it’s had over 2000 authors in its time.

And even if they did, and put copilot into it, distros could still choose to not use it

True.

This in fact happens already. Lots of distros that use systemd only use some components of it. It’s GPL code, you can do that…

Now let’s move on to Lennart Poettering.

Yeah, he was one of the top people behind systemd, and he has now moved to a job within Microsoft. What’s your point? That doesn’t mean systemd is Microsoft property now. That’s not how it works lol. PulseAudio isn’t either.

Seems a lot more similar to Gnome and KDE than Apple tbh.

They have a history of copying stuff (including branding) from Linux projects.

In addition to ME and NT, they also had CE.

CEMENT.

For real.

I dislike Copilot with a burning passion, but I can’t deny it’s an amazing name. Because that’s what AI in an OS should be.

A copilot. One that will take over and help me do things, especially tedious things like offline translation, better screen reader functionality for the blind, better speech recognition and synthesis, etc.

Of course that’s not what MS is doing, they’re doing it to shove gimmicks down our throat and to scoop up data en masse.

Windows Intelligence is just… Ugh. Do they not get that Apple Intelligence, while still being a bit of a rubbish name, at least works because it still can be shortened to AI?

Microsoft does not own systemd

And even if they did, and put copilot into it, distros could still choose to not use it

I told you when you did.

Dollars.

Google is giving hundreds of millions because they fear regulators getting involved.

A handful of people who follow Mozilla on Mastodon saying they’re willing to pay up to a meagre $5 per year won’t do anything.

I’m angry it took this long. Should’ve been banned the second they came onto the market.

Banning them from ordering stock without any warning is the exact opposite of giving them a short period to make arrangements.

Go read your own comments. You equated them.

Having a beer is not the same as raping a 4 year old.

He did reverse, that’s my point.

An opinion however gross isn’t a crime.

Never said it was. Now can you answer the question. Would you believe this person was genuine?

You’ve said it constantly. Child rape isn’t ok.

The kind of people you find on Mastodon following Firefox news are not the same as the average person. They are a bubble.

A few thousand people paying $5 per year is not enough to replace hundreds of millions.

Unfortunately I don’t think there’s much Mozilla can do other than cut costs with it seeming like the Google funding will be getting severely hampered.

They can’t get money from thin air.

It’s very normal to give businesses a short period to make arrangements/sell off stock.

They were never going to pass a law that banned them right from that second.

This is a good move. The damage that will continue to happen for the next 6 months or whatever is miniscule compared to the damage of just allowing it to continue indefinitely. Hopefully other countries follow suit.

In your comment where you equated them, then every single comment after.

He did say that.

Do you believe he suddenly changed his mind on an opinion he held and shouted to the world, 2 days after it became apparent he might lose his job over it?

If someone committed fraud, then went to court and said “your honour, I actually agree with you. Fraud is wrong. I came to that conclusion this morning.” would you believe them?

Quote what exactly I said that was either of those things.

It’s what all of your comments have been about. Don’t play dumb.

Support. Warranties. Replacement parts.

Disposable vapes will be banned in the UK starting in June 2025.

Based.

Moving to Europe where… there’s an even greater level of sanctions against Russia, and the population is more anti-Russia?

I mean sure, I’d like that, but it wouldn’t have the effect you want it to lmao

And no, maintainers for sanctioned Russian companies were removed from their positions (where they can push kernel changes with zero approval).

Now they have to wait for their changes to be approved like everybody else. Oh no the horror.