... use those points to buy stuff at the Apple store?

Wait! Never mind. It turns out that I can buy an infinite number of Linux installs with them.

And your dog will play with you because you have a pork chop tied around your neck.

This.

The Emperor's New Clothes is quite applicable here. It's not enough to point out that he's naked as a jaybird, but that this has become "common knowledge" and one is now safe to act on it without negative consequences.

Just try to step up and say that your company isn't going to bite on the AI bait and the market will knock points off your share price.

There's an interesting book out on that topic.

... Pittsburgh is my favorite team!

... put it in the bid specification. Spare parts, maintenance manuals, etc. It's what the commercial airlines do.

Can't get anyone to bid on such terms? Well then, you let too many suppliers merge, creating an oligopoly that isn't in the best interest of the nation. Or if its collusion between the manufacturers, set a trap for them and then it's off to prison. Goodness knows you've got enough FBI agents sitting in bars, waiting for some dirt bag to walk in and hire a hit on an enemy.

Yeah. But you're going to fail that Concours d'Elegance trophy class with fake parts.

64, 65. Whatever it takes.

This is what I fear. I'm just not certain whose source will be "leaking" into whose kernel. Or why, if Linux devs (Linus) have decided up to this point _not_ to adopt a standard C construct, it is now considered to be a good idea.

Are we developing Linux using the Cut-N-Paste culture of Stack Overflow?

As a step toward application portability between Microsoft apps and Linux systems, maybe. But that seems to be more at the library level. But who out there is suggesting that we need to splice Microsoft stuff (drivers, etc.) directly into the Linux kernel?

On the other hand, it could help in porting systemd to Windows.

Or Costco.

As are the sails on many large recreational yachts. Power furling systems are quite common.

"The crew" (skipper) just pushes a button. From there, it's how fast the hydraulics can work.

... or moved to non-Rust dependent distributions.

Alas, poor Debian. I knew him ...

It's cheap land. But often not owned by the port authority that builds the airport. If the PA had to acquire buffer zones, nothing would ever get built. So the land remains in private hands. And the uses it is put to are often low rent. Like warehouses, scrap metal yards, dive bars, etc.

Reminds me of the trouble ticket/mechanics responses that made such humorous reading:

Flight crew: Engine No. 1 is missing.
Maintenance: Found Engine No. 1 on the left wing where it's supposed to be.

Seriously, "lost an engine" can mean so many different things.