...every dirty trick in the book to secure their monopoly.
They spread fear and claim that only they can ensure safety.
They refuse to release a powerful model, claiming it's too dangerous.
They invite government restrictions.
They attack open source projects.
Classic monopolist behavior.

The old way of sending a student home to write a paper is dead.
Imagine a future where each student has an AI tutor, precisely matched to the student's talents and weaknesses.
The tutor would know exactly how the student is progressing throughout the process.
If a student was learning quickly, the tutor would present the material faster.
If the student was struggling, the tutor would focus on the problem areas.
No exams would be needed.

Don't buy them

All you need is common sense, skepticism and an understanding of how Amazon works.
Some cheap Chinese stuff sold by sellers with nonsense names is good enough.
Some is total crap.
It's easy to tell them apart.

The whole process that split AT&T's System V and BSD should bear some weight here, at some point there was an agreement that, once BSD rewrote the few offending portions, AT&T had no claim anymore.

Frankly I'm surprised that the settlement between SCO and IBM didn't include verbiage that this was a done deal with no right for any successor-entity to bring this up again.

..creative and motivated kids.
Kids find workarounds and governments are living in a fantasy world

Serious engineering tools

Publishers want to eliminate this option and only allow rentals
The word buy means ownership and the right to use as long as you want, and when you choose, resell it

and now I want them even less
Just say no to subscriptions

There are tons and tons of pathogens with high mortality rates without medical intervention. There are tons of pathogens that only see minimal death rates without active medical intervention because vaccination reduced the penetration that those pathogens have into the community and may have even forced evolution for increased transmissibility in lieu of virulence in order to spread at all.

I didn't get the feeling that the GP post was claiming it was valueless. I got the feeling that the concern was it would get out of the control of its creators, manage to mutate or evolve past a death in five generations, and become a threat to everything we know and love.

There was an easy way to make backups.
And no server was required to use the backups.
And the backups never expired.

I would really prefer the other way around, invoking Windows containers for the few Windows apps that I am stuck running.

Just because someone is stupid doesn't mean that they aren't subject to specific protections under law.

Ernesto Miranda, for whom the Miranda Warning is named, was by accounts a terrible person. Miranda's conviction was thrown out on those technical grounds that his confession should not have been permitted, then he was retried and convicted of the crime without his confession as evidence. Once he was released from prison he died in a bar fight.

The point of protections are that they apply to everyone, guilty or innocent, and are supposed to regulate the way that the legal system all the way from the patrolman to the attorney general behave. That doesn't mean that criminals aren't still criminals, but it does mean that the government has to provide proper justification for its actions against persons. If someone really did commit a crime then the government should be able to show cause, and this keeps everyone else from being scrutinized when the government has no business scrutinizing.

I don't wonder what PJ is up to. I can't even remember the site name/URL that originally was covering that and had forums, but when the password restrictions because utterly freakin' stupid for a new aggregator and discussion forum I just stopped bothering to visit.