You say that, but then ignore the funding source and board of directors for the orgs that Lennart worked for... sure. Totally just a coincidence.

In other words, they've made largely superficial changes (except 9x -> NT) quite consistently which haven't added much in terms of value.

Because Lennart Poettering is basically the Linus Torvalds of fucking up Linux for Microsoft: systemd, avahi, pulseaudio, and associated shitware bloat which have made linux less stable, less secure, and increasingly difficult to diagnose or integrate.

He's always been a proponent of doing things on Linux the Microsoft way, seemingly as an agent of chaos.

Yeah, true - most of those systems are trash, bugzilla specifically.

They really should be built more like a CRM.

Corporate purchases and rich people, where 500-1000 extra bucks doesnt matter much to the budget.

Not too long ago, one of my kids wanted a surface pro for college. Really nice hardware. Total cost for the unit and magnetic keyboard was under a grand. For a few hundred extra, we got wayyyyy nicer hardware compared to the low-end student laptops. But, 2k, for the lowest end model. would be a nonstarter. I’m not wealthy. They’re probably not serious about selling very many of them. More of a tech demo thing.

FFS, for just a few hundred more I can buy a late-model macbook pro that probably runs windows faster, even though it’s in emulation mode.

Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe the touchscreen makes the extra 500-750 bucks worth it for some people.

Do meds make you stop thinking or analyzing things critically? Most of the psycho meds make people dumb as shit today. Here I have a whole writeup:

https://battlepenguin.com/poli...

There are sources for videos, analysis of the "bullet photos" and lots of other details. My arguments are sound. They might not be something you agree with because you believe everything you see on the Google and/or TV without question, but they are not an indication I need to "take my meds." Or have you forgotten how much the Epstein files have shown just how many "conspiracies" are true?

Operation Ajax. Operation Paperclip. Operation Mockingbird. COINTELPRO. All these are real, actual conspiracies against innocent people that took place under various presidents.

Keep taking your meds and go numb.

Shit, I remember when an associates degree would at least get you in the door and on the ladder, bachelors was the gold stamp. Masters and phd's were for high echelon positions.

This wasnt a lawsuit for control. It was a lawsuit to force profits back to the nonprofit

Hmm....only up to about $4 or so here where I live in the New Orleans area...maybe a bit more...I bought at Costco yesterday and didn't really look that close at the pump, but was in the $4 range...

It is called summary judgement, and I honestly thought that was good news that it went to trial, and the court could find justification to stop business in America from being allowed to steal non-profits. I guess I was wrong. This will only make things worse in the long run.

This is a civil trial, not a criminal trial. There is no "jeopardy" there is no double jeopardy. This is a civil suit.

I hate seeing seemingly intelligent people view this as "I hate that business guy more than the other business guy", as opposed to "What rules should American business have to operate under".

Why does this have to be an ad hominem attack? Honestly I think the right thing to have done is to revert OpenAI back into a pure non-profit, with a proper governance board. Hating Elon might be fun, but it's blinding to what we all just cheered: The ability for business people to start non-profits and pivot once the non-profit advantages have borne fruit. Non-profits get special pricing for most of the services they use, purchase hardware at discounts, get tax deductible donations from their "founders", and make a healthy business, and decide at the 11th hour to convert to profit, and pillage all the coffers in stock buybacks and distributions. This is not wise.

MBAs are "highly polished turds" because we've lost the ability (legally and culturally) to assess people on merit. You end up with a poor surrogate, which has become gameified to produce people who make the metric the measurement of work instead of basing metrics on the value of the outcome.

Where have you been? You couldn't be more wrong.

This entire culture has been bent around the idea of quarterly profits for decades. "Stocks are up!" Short term gain at the cost of long term employees and innovation. Ship faster!

While, yes, the trend to seek short term profits has slowed and even in some small ways reversed, we are a good number of years from being focused on incremental innovation and experience, again.