At that time, the Republican party had not yet become completely corrupted, unlike today.

Tragedy of the commons. People are short-sighted, greedy and stupid and CEOs are decidedly not an exception.

Well, that history ended when IBM bought them. Anybody expecting anything else is naive. Well, maybe they will do the occasional PR project, but do not expect anything substantial.

It does. Smart people are already on the fork (OpenTofu) that does not fuck you over. 3rd party support should not be a problem either.

Obviously, IBM will try to squeeze customers as much as possible (see Red Hat) while not caring enough for the product and generally making it worse fast. OpenTofu has a bright future.

Well, quite obviously that will happen sooner or later. The surveillance fascists do not know any restraint.

Well, illegal to war anyways, the GDPR makes sure of that. Whether illegal to own depends on the Country. In Germany, for example, this is a "covert surveillance device" and it is illegal to sell or to own.

Oh, definitely. CRISPR is not safe to use until we have mastered cancer treatment. The only applications now are really bad medical problems, were the cancer risk is acceptable.

Another example why "longer" does not mean "better"....

Sooo, Rust is so bad that you now have to do ad SPAM for it? Well, not really a surprise.

Quite possibly. Cars are large enough investments that some customization is already baked into the manufacturing process.

Gotcha!

Well, yes. In the end, all that will make people move away from RedHat. Like is currently happening with VmWare. And, come to think of it, Microsoft is trying essentially the same thing with Windows, but more stealthily and slower.

Essentially doing huge damage for a much smaller profit increase. One of the better definitions of "evil".

Indeed. Just as the worst IT security risks on Linux are SysAdmins and users as well.

I think what happened on my system is that they deferred all writes and with all the idiots trying ssh logins the log-queue backed up, thus stopping the respective sshd childs. When I tried to reboot, the admin tool told me "locked (backup)". At least my ticket got processed within a few minutes. Hence not a Linux issue but a SysAdmin screwing up. At least now I know my secondary DNS and MTA actually work in a real-world outage ;-)

Where do you get that from? All the signs like interruption of services and outages are there. Service restoration is still in progress. THis clearly was a Ransomware attack with additional data exfiltration.