Came from Twitterlands, done with that place.
If you're referring to me in the 3rd person without knowing my pronoun, please substitute your own. I insist.
Sláva Ukrayíni! / Слава Україні
The world's big enough for you to be unhealthily preoccupied and for folks to be doing the things you're unhealthily preoccupied with.
"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that there aren't people out to get you."
There's a scale issue that you might be overlooking in your anecdote, but there physically *is* a prevailing notion of American exceptionalism. So, your proportions being off doesn't make your point wrong, it's just not the scenario I'd use.
However, I would caution that this might be more like when Airbus complained about Boeing basically being subsidized by the Military Industrial Complex, providing cheaper planes to buyers than Airbus could, and we ended up seeing why later lol.
Final thoughts on the Red Hat thing: every supporter of the Red Hat move told me that "it's normal to want to prevent people from stealing the hard work and making a clone of it".
If you think grabbing the code and reusing it is "stealing", you don't understand FOSS.
No matter what RH clones contribute, or if they're worth it. That's not the point. The point is, RH builds their stuff using the GPL, and they have to redistribute using the GPL.
American tanks run using turbines that drive hydraulics systems and motors. They can run on anything liquid that burns. *Ideally*, they'd use kerosene/cerosine (jet fuel), but diesel burns just fine enough in those conditions as well.
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