Yeah, what that means is that they are going to be the de facto choice for pumps for european DCs, and yet they are asking the EU to build fewer of them, which will mean less business for them. This doesn't mean what you think it means. Unlike in the USA, a lot of major European corporations are still run with sustainability in mind. They would like there to be a tomorrow for them to profit in.

Sure, it's bought with money from drug trafficking.

I don't want the CIA doing that either.

They are both things, as they are both producing the product and delivering it to the end user, and they are collecting the revenues.

It means someone was being snarky, and if you can't parse it out, it also means you're not good at understanding English.

You trust what Zuck says? He has a name for people like that.

It's called personal experience. Bots like you don't, but real humans actually have such things.

NiMH also doesn't eat shit immediately if you deep discharge it once and leave it that way for a few days, which is my favorite thing about it. A lot of chargers are too dumb to recharge deeply discharged cells, though. Of my three NiMH chargers, only one will do it. I love eneloop batteries, but the eneloop bundled charger is trash...

We knew that already, because you were talking about China.

That's not an "or".

I am not paying taxes for the purpose of having feds violate the law, national or international.

Yes, because IBM wanted to change them — from not violating the GPL, to violating the GPL. And that's exactly what they are doing by placing additional restrictions on the redistribution of sources delivered to customers.

It's for "import".

The C is for cocaine.

They're the CIA. They don't need the FBI to wipe their ass for them, they chose not to wipe it. But the more important point is how was this considered a legitimate request to begin with? The only reason he'd need all that would be for some nefarious shit, like when the CIA imported cocaine in USFS planes.

Yeah, we thought IBM/Redhat followed the GPL, but then they started placing additional restrictions on the software sent to subscribers, which is a direct violation of the GPL. It is not a defense that they are doing it in a separate license either, because that's the only place where they could do it as the GPL is copyrighted, so they can't legally just add a clause permitting it there because they'd be creating an unauthorized derivative work.

Given that they used to not do this, but they are doing it now, what's to stop them from making the next step not contributing the sources upstream?

The problem with the CIA is not necessarily that they exist, but that they apparently operate without oversight. What the fuck is this?

Then this is a good time to sell it. You can get your money back or even maybe make a profit.