Some discussion of the Kyle question on esr's site here: https://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=875... - the cert is invalid now, but you can click through to 888+ comments there.

I remember picketing frys and handing out CDs of Linux, and protesting to stop paying the Microsoft Tax!
I remember being afraid for my job if I contributed to FOSS under my own name.
I remember the real-world evidence that had accumulated that Linux + Samba was massively better than NT + SMB - I had had a site that crashed 3 times a week with NT, and replaced it with Linux.
I remember the ease of remote support for that, leveraging ssh rather than a gui.
I remember how we as a community pulled together to tackle many of the real problems we had had then (like multi-processor support) support that Microsoft had identified for us.
In looking over that old Microsoft strategy today - I do see many bothersome things - like "decommoditizing protocols" - that still infect the industry. It would be good for more here to re-read the first and second Halloween documents and reflect on the good and the bad!
One thing entirely missed by all in 1998 is the rise of the web (and phone!) replacing applications that ran locally, with things like drag and drop. Sometimes I point to the GPLv2 as being a proximate cause of the rise of the cloud as that kept the custom code out of the customer hands.

Thx for reposting this.Very few modern Linux folk seem to remember the context of the original war. What will the next 25 years look like?

The FCC mandating bufferbloat mitigations like fq_codel, or cake, or libreqos.io, would do a lot more, faster, and cheaper, to improve QoE and the ability to WFH.

All these execs, and giant fees to join, and not a single actual open source developer on the boards. sigh At least LF hired linus....

I am too tired to check for my favorite feature in this OS. Anyone know if this ships with fq_codel support?

.5% of several million asteroids is quite a lot, and honestly one as big as Psyche too big and a PITA. What you want is one, nice, small (hundreds of meters, not kilometers) asteroid, in a better orbit than that one... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Get it here: https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/s... Revel at the ancientness of the code, that still works.

the annoying time limit on the free plans finally got to me, and galene.org got good enough to use everyday. Then the p2p calling in matrix.org got to be awesome, and soon there will be stacked SFUs there... why have a 3rd party on your own traffic that you cannot possibly trust? Zoom squandered their early lead, and I imagine, spent all the money on cocaine and hookers.

I listen to a lot of networking podcasts, which I wish more CS majors listened to as well. They include: Packet Pushers, The Brothers WISP, and modem.show Doc Searls' The FLOSS show is often good.

I tried to build my own EV back then, and dealing with the charging problem or the swap out idea defeated me, among other things. I am glad to see it become a reality.

Are generally located far too close to our reproductive organs for me to feel comfortable about ever more radios in those locations. Recently I didn't by long electric underwear with bluetooth, for this reason. (yes, people are making underwear with bluetooth)

It's at sentences like this that I think that bringing back the public stocks for white collar crime, would be useful. https://www.onslowcountync.gov...