"Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches," Ballmer said, back before Linux had metastasized into the Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Nice writing.

Bit mage

A healthy global FOSS culture requires collaborative politics to be the flavour of the day

Bullshit. There's no reason people with political differences can't collaborate on the same project, unless those differences are really huge.

I for one prefer pick-up spots as there's "always" someone there, convenient for the driver and myself.

XMPP is very old

Seriously? That's your argument? So is the wheel.

Requirement of permanent tcp ip connection doesn’t work well for mobile

I was under the impression PubSub was created for that.

Still, it's an open extensible protocol.

a can of smashed assholes.

I can't find that on ebay! Why are you mentioning that if i can't find it on ebay?!

I demand to speak to the manager!

and the response from the west would be swift. At least I hope and assume so.

The whole point of NATO is that if you attack one country, the others come to the rescue, meaning the US war economy is frothing at the mouth just begging that Russia does something stupid with a NATO country. Not their backyard anyway.

They never stopped being bad, they've just refined their tactics.

Most subtle instance of Microsoft's Embrace-Extend-Extinguish to date.

It would stop being linux.

#surprisedNoOne

How can it be convenient for the desktop user to severely limit the amount or running processes? Desktop usage scenarios are the opposite of RT usage.