Well, according to the summary they: "... had held more than 20,000 events and given out $3.5m in scholarships" and that last one should qualify quite easily as 'functionally helping someone'.

I've been using Linux as my daily driver for 30 years. Oh sure, I had to dual boot from time to time to use the very last of the straggling applications, until I finally found quality equivalents for all of them.

Intuit, Adobe and all the incumbents spent billions upon untold BILLIONS to keep users like me trapped. And they lost.

Games run like a Swiss clock factory on Linux.

And as an added bonus: no progress bars, obscure meaningless error messages or popups.

They'll wring the last few cents out of their accidental deal with IBM, and then Linux and its equivalents will sweep DOS aside for good. The world will be a much better and happier place.

I escaped. I no longer need Windows for anything. Including:

1. Adobe Creative Cloud (I use free equivalents)
2. Quicken (I wrote my own equivalent).
3. Games, including Microsoft's OWN games (they run smooth with all the graphics options turned on with Wine, Proton, Lutris, Steam, etc.)
4. Development (nobody develops anything on Windows anyway)
5. Writing (Emacs for an author is incredibly powerful)
6. Video creation (faster and more stable on Linux)

All those billions spent on lock-in

I suppose I could keep a potato around with the billywindows installed on it, but it can't disrupt my work or interfere with my schedule any more. It can't destroy my work either. I also don't have to endure six progress bars every time I try to do something.

As far as this little gray duck is concerned the OS wars are over, and Microsoft lost huge. Good riddance.

Replace 'soldier' with 'scumbag'. Other than that I completely agree.

So in your opinion those involved in the Boston teaparty, an act of patriotic protest deeply admired by Americans today, should have been strung up by the British and publicly flogged or something?

It does not become a "work" until it is copyrightable. Slapping a few words together does not constitute a "work" as it is understood in Title 17.

I do intellectual property for a living. Give it a rest.

There is no such thing as a "non-copyrightable work."

Same shares up almost 16%. Sorry if you popped all your champagne.

Any original (or otherwise eligible) work fixed in a tangible medium is copyrighted automatically under the United States Copyright Act of 1976.

Access any Big Tech(tm) site on phone "5G" connection: instant.

Phone video playback on Big Tech: instant.

Access my own e-commerce web site on the phone: 20-30 seconds minimum, even if 97% text.

Access the same site from a wired connection: instant.

All this posturing is bullshit. 5G is bullshit too.

If you don't have a Big Tech URL, your site is already fucked.

No matter what your job is, if the cash register does not ring, you do not get paid. Ever.

Let's see, all the power plant employees got fired. All the suppliers lost a major customer and naturally had to lay off thousands. Plus we didn't get to build the batteries, so no jobs for Americans there either.

0 + 0 + 0 jobs for Americans

Right in line with the agenda.

In the US system it is always easier to bribe your way out of trouble than it is to make changes and it's neither hard nor expensive to do so. Now, if anybody thinks I'm unfairly criticising the US here I'm not. Have any of the people that almost crashed the world economy back in 2007-8 served a day in jail? Anywhere in the world? The last time I looked it was 47 of them. Out of these 27 were convicted in Iceland, 11 in Spain, 7 in the Irish Republic. Everywhere else the list does not top one individual and that includes the USA. These people are protected and punishing them would set a 'dangerous precedent'. Boeing executives will bail out of Boeing in a jewel encrusted golden parachute straight into a gated community in one of US America's internal tax havens and live a life in the lap of luxury never wasting a single thought on the people who died in the 737 crashes because they'll break too busy bribing their idiot kids' way into an Ivy League college and coming up with some new and more innovative way of destroying what's left of the US manufacturing industry.

Let's spray salt into the air! That won't cause saltwater rain, will it? Because what would saltwater rain do to the environment?