And it is at this time the realities of what they are doing finally hit home.
Don't forget these are the same people who decried NASA on their obsession on safety calling it government over spending.

Don't mind me. I am just sitting here, amused, as i watch these people relearn the same lessons that NASA and the Soviet space program learned over 50 years ago because they believe that their 'free market' 'privately run' space program by some magic makes them immune to the same problems.

It wasn't bash, it was programs like apache foolishly passing internal commands over to bash...

OpenBSD market share drops as it no longer supports third party hardware. Former OpenBSD users migrate FreeBSD and DragonflyBSD where they can load the drivers for their raid cards and other server hardware that is not yet in the BSD mainline kernel.

This decision is almost as dumb as the unquestioned adoption of SystemD in linux..

Have you read a sports page lately?
If you have then you read the future of all newspapers, the sports page now is mostly written by software engines.
It won't be long till the rest of the newspaper is as well.

Except for the mail in opinion pieces, it will take an ai to handle the double think and such.

To the end user it is bricked. Thats all that matters.

It would also save tax payer money.
Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 and hour would remove $7.6 billion from being spent by social services to subsidize companies who pay workers $7.25 or less.

Sorry but then your company then goes under after a large percentage of your customer base returns your products after they stop working.
You can spec the designs ALL you want to use authentic chips, but when your company's accounting department sees they can save a few cents to a buck per device by using the less than authentic chip. You're pretty much sunk.
Even if the accounting department agrees with you, and you get the company you work for to have boots on the ground in your manufacturing plants to make sure you use authentic parts. Even then you can't tell the chip is authentic until you destructively open it up and look at the silicon.

To put it bluntly as long as they exist the entire apparatus of the corporate machine is geared to use them because they provide the exact same function as the authentic chips at a lower price.

Is an emulator to run the code!

The difference is that the company behind OSS was using them so they did not have to pay a cent and then turn around and sell the result to customers of UNIX and BSD as a complete drop in sound system.
And at the same time try to get linux users to pay them for using it.

Yes until 4front tells the linux kernel devs to 'fsck off and thank you for developing our lead software product for unix, for free. oh and btw you're no longer allowed to use OSS anymore.'
Which is what they did with the previous OSS version that was in the kernel.

The only programs that I have encountered that don't work well with alsa without the need for a sound system on top of alsa are the ones with project leads that purposefully don't follow ALSA documentation.
Zsnes and Bsnes are perfect examples.

They made alsa so they would not be used as free bug testers and squashers like they did when the OSS sound system was in the kernel.

To be fair your general windows or apple user doesn't have a clue on what software dependency is.

I myself was forced to install pulseaudio if i wanted to use the linux version of steam. I feel it is not needed as streaming software does a better job than network transparent audio and we did not need yet another audio server with ALSA turning on DMIX by default. But i had to install it nonetheless. since then it's been a constant chore to tweak the number of audio segments and lengths of said segments to get all audio applications to play nicely without stuttering or skin curling noise!

[joke]Announcing the new version of android for 2018. we have moved the entire userland to the 'popular' SystemD userland with the option of user choosing either plain linux kernel and the newly renovated linuxD kernel.[/joke]

I hope they don't get a cent from their fraud attempt.