So many purchases of non-physical items are a revocable license. There's a good chance they didn't use LaTex to create their court filing documents because that software too probably comes with a revocable license to use, not own.

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If you look at what company owns LinkedIn you will understand why it has gone to sh;t.

hint on who it is: Their headquarters are at One Microsoft Way, Redmond WA

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My bad, those were Telsa global delivery numbers, not US. For the US sales numbres:

Q1 Sales: 128,100 vehicles were sold and Q2 Sales: 143,535 vehicles were sold for a total of 271,635 which would mean a significant number of EVs were purchased from other vendors this year in the US. THAT's a big deal if you're a Tesla stock holder or employee.

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Obviously stated by someone who has never driven a modern EV. Because they have the torque of a turbo diesel, the speed of an LS8 and at more than 2x the energy conversion efficiency. They get ~300 miles on effectively the energy of 3 gallons of gasoline.

But, if you REALLY like driving snow plow looking vehicles becasue they look manly have at it. But don't judge until you've pinned yourself into the seat a few times in one of the many EVs on the market today.

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Google says Tesla sold Q1 2025, 336,681 vehicle deliveries and Q2 2025, 384,122 vehicles delivered.
I guess some of those could have been sold in 2024 but a full 100,000 unit difference and that's just Telsa so the 50,000 or so GM and Ford sold aren't even counted. Note, just guessing on the Ford and GM number since they are usually just a fraction of Tesla sales.

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THIS. WSL was designed for surveillance and tracking for marketing purposes. Remember what Monkey Boy said? Developers developers developers!

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And yet none of those were called "Windows Subsystem for _____"
The naming was designed to get hits and to confuse management. Developers were showing management what could be done with Linux for very little cost and getting approval for Linux systems to develop on. Windows Subsystem for Linux makes it sound like they can run Linux and still have access to Windows when it was bass ackwards. IMHO

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hmm, I thought it was because so many Windows devs were installing Linux on the hardware and writing their enterprise apps that way and therefore nothing was traceable. Even running Linux in a virtual machine eliminated Microsoft tracking except for how many times or how long the VM was run. WSL is a whole complete tracking system since it goes into kernel space. Not sure how much tracking WSL2 gives but it's gotta be far more than VMs or directly on the iron.

BTW, I've seen it personally where people will jump through hoops to get a project working within WSL rather than boot a full Linux system on the hardware.
I've also seen many give up and either install another SSD or partition to dual boot.
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Screw em, just make VS Code forks act like what the extension needs.

They still want their cake and to eat it too.
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Even that 2 seater is only going to get a few miles of added range after many hours of sitting in the sun so it's just not worth the effort.
They had to curve the panels to the body shape, wire them in and get that wired into the battery to put charge into it. The weight alone probably negates the added range.

They really need to get off the gimmick train and start showing how they produce those in quantity and at a profit. And to heck with the 400 mile range goal, get something together with 300+ miles of range and get it on the road in numbers. It's already a pretty small battery so it should charge rather quickly.

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When C++ and OOP were starting to go strong I met a guy showing a desktop environment for Linux called Gnome. When I asked about what was great about it he said it was like object-like. Now I'd run UNIX, DOS, Windows, Solaris, HPUX and OS/2 and CORBA was starting to spread its wings too so I didn't get why someone on a *nix platform wouldn't be doing full blown OOP. So I quizzed him more and he went off on how much like Microsoft's COM, and possibly DCOM it was. He clearly held Microsoft up on a pedestal. I don't recall if I'd said anything in return but I walked away thinking why on earth would this guy be copying stuff Microsoft was doing when more often than not it was inferior to what corporate America was working on and always has been a reaction to far superior technologies.

That guy was Miguel de Icaza and the rest is well documented. I wouldn't touch .Nyet with a 20' pole on purpose and the couple of times I did have to touch it, it broke. So many resources wasted.

Wine should not have taken on the project. And from the other comments, the one dev on the project is over his/her head.

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The hugh ivanpah concentrated solar generation plant is being shut down because solar PV and batteries can do better faster cheaper. People are buying solar and batteries for their homes and not using anything from the grid. People are charging EVs from solar and EVs are well over 80% efficient compared to gasoline based cars, trucks and SUVs at around 20% efficient.

The writing's on the wall and investors want their profits now while they can and have some time to sell before the floor falls out. There's less than 10 years in the oil stocks.

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If you want to hack on something and let the customers/users see if it works ok or not then go work for Microsoft.
Linux is where it is today by a steady keel making small adjustments along the way. And when the likes of Microsoft and others get involved those holding the keel on course need to beat off the Microsoft, and other devs, with a large orr so not to pollute and destroy what's put Linux where it is today.

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He's always played up how smart he thought he was like his book attempting to forecast the future called something like "The Road Ahead".
So many times others were the great innovators and Bill and Steve spent millions and millions to crush those because they COULD threaten the Windows monopoly.
Sad that so many have no clue how he made his wealth and the many many lives of incredible innovators they destroyed or at the very least quieted to fringe areas of the technology segment.

I think he's feeling neglected as Musk and others are showing what intelligence and innovative minds can do and even with his billions he's on the back pages if at all being mentioned. He will sell books and people will continue to believe his stories and maybe some will be compelled to create something truly amazing and there won't be a Microsoft around to crush their dreams and efforts but instead they will get rewarded.

It is quite enjoyable being able to do so much on Linux based computing devices of all sizes and not have to touch Microsoft Windows.
After all, AI can now write code which doesn't need to run on Windows if you ask it to.

Remembering what the late great Douglas Adams once wrote:
"The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armor to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place."
---Douglas Adams

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He's a GOD in his own mind.

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