What happened, is someone else wants control of Linux, and Linus was told to bow or or end up dead.

And that is the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about. Cars aren't cheap.

Unless you're an 80 year old granny.

So may people do not realize that the 'free market' is the only thing, and that everything is part of the free market, from the government to a literal market to the black market. Every action has an equal an opposite reaction and nature abhors a vacuum. What is true in physics is also true in everything else.

That phrase was in Luck of the Fryish. The movie about Philip J Fry was about Fry's Nephew.

Thank you for this post. There are painfully few people who seem to understand how and why Trump won.

No, I think you're onto something. I've known for awhile people, whether the US government, Intelligence community, or corporations were going to hijack Linux at some point, and I think all these changes and happenings in the community are the first fruits of those labors.

I have long suspected that AMD and Nvidia have deliberately been writing broken Linux drivers at Microsoft's behest, because when they lose the gamers, their downward slide will be irreversible.

Linux can barely run a GPU at all.

I meant noticing it in the internet in general, rather than just here.

For me, it didn't start with Trump. I first started to really notice it between 2006-2008, and it has gotten steadily worse since then, with a jump about a year leading up to election day 2016. I think a lot of it is CTR/Media Matters and similar groups answering to other interests.

No! No! No! You're not allowed to point out the fact that the rest of the world bitches about America and then does the same shit. ;)

Shh...don't interrupt the hate train.

It's an effect. People are poor now. They don't have the money to go out and do things.

Tin foil hat time. The powers that be want this shut down. That FBIanon shit was not going to go unpunished.