Also, thinking on what you said, I disagree that wanting non-subscription people to use Fedora was a Bad Thing(tm).

Nobody was "forced" into Fedora. Fedora was a way of testing out packages upstream, getting feedback, working out any edge case issues, before packaging them up into something that people were depending on for their supported infrastructure. The companies paying for support didn't want to pay for being the testing ground for new technologies: they wanted a stable, dependable platform for their own infrastructure.

I worked there from 2005 till 2015.

Red Hat was great right up until they hired leadership that didn't care about F/OSS and was more interested in making the company something another company (IBM) would want to buy. I was there for 10 years and saw the slow loss of that underlying spirit during that time...

Wasn't this how the zombies in Romero's original Night of the Living Dead get created? A Venusian probe crashing back to Earth?

I think the only thing going on is the news drumming up and exaggerating viewer response to the ad for a cheap talking point...

What do you mean by 106a? UCMJ 106a is about unauthorized ribbons, etc.:

https://mymilitarylawyers.com/...

Thanks, Obama.

It was a means to disenfranchising black voters after Reconstruction. By making felons ineligible to vote, and by increasingly prosecuting blacks for bullshit reasons, the white majority was able to keep them off the voting rolls.

And YOU need to learn historical context.

The platforms for the RNC and DNC switched in the 1960s over civil rights. The Dixie Democrats ran from the more progressive part of the DNC and into the waiting arms of the white elitist RNC when the progressives in the DNC made civil rights a part of their platform.

From what state did the senator who did that filibuster come? West Virginia.

What party represents that state in general? Capito (R) and Manchin (D).

And before you claim they're 50/50: Manchin represents the old sort of Dixie Democrats that the other southerns states used to be -- the kind that were progressive for almost anything EXCEPT when it came to giving equal rights to non-whites.

While I do (mostly) trust Wikipedia, this (Ewing inventing Red Hat) doesn’t come from that source. I was there.

We all want to be rich. ;-) Both Taco and Linus deserve to be highly rewarded for the value they have created that the rest of us benefit from. (Although for the newbies and humor-challenged readers: Slashdot did not invent Red Hat. That would be Marc Ewing.)

“The KO blow to UNIX was when Slashdot invented Red Hat and pitched it to Linus.“ This is brilliant.

There isn't really any proof that Waymo vehicles are driverless, only that the driver isn't in the vehicle. If you compare a dozen dubiously driverless vehicles to a million collecting data every moment and already doing a pretty good job at autonomy, which do you think will succeed?

The fact that the driver is not in the vehicle does not mean that there is no driver.

And that's where they get you!