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There was a theory somewhere that this is about power play. If you produce Spiderman 245, power shifts away from the director and towards the production company. Less artistic freedom, more money management. If you let the director create their own movie, they are mostly in charge of how things go, movies become more artistic and less focused on money (alone).

I have nothing to confirm this and don’t remember the source I have that from except “the internet”

Who are you and who is the dog in this picture? And who is the burger?

correct answer (as far as my opinion is concerned without doing any actual research)

Fucking Star Wars fans…

I was sure it’s Steve Jobs

I sincerely hope that is what’s going to happen and Mozilla gets severely fucked over for how they have been running their shit. Break their business and rethink from scratch how we run and finance the development of one of the most important pieces of software around. Hint: You’re not going to be competitive with big tech by copying their practices, marketing “AI” bullshit and pocket and all that crap. You can’t compete with google there, they can always outspend you.

As a Linux user, such a break would also be very timely, now that we have survived the painful surgeries of systemd and wayland. Those problems are mostly fixed, so we need another dysfunctional troublemaker - Firefox it is!

But seriously: The official story is always that google gives Mozilla the money to be the default search engine. But really, they don’t need to care. Google needs Firefox so they can pretend they don’t have a browser monopoly. For similar reasons, google used to employed 10000s of people who were doing very much non-essential stuff that is entirely irrelevant for their business. They could have fired them all long ago, and massively increased their profitability. But those would have looked obscene and raises regulators’ attention. So just hiring a bunch of expensive engineers who build google chat 23.0 and whatever makes them appear more like a “normal” company.

not in my language

Not getting yelled at on the Linux kernel mailing list

Seems like they are outta here… without spilling any evidence :(

lol 69

Never met that vegan everyone is talking about, but I did meet some of those linux users. More than that Mac OS users, though

Yes, unless you do it too late and then it brakes :)

(Haven’t used Arch in ~10 years, but that was my experience back then. I use Debian, btw)

GNU/Arch, sir or siresse

Hello from Japan! :)

1. it’s easy to make fun of
2. it makes every other programming language look better in comparison

Exactly my point. In the second case the two lines are also not the product, but it’s heavily implied that the dam, bridge is something useful, while the python code is useless. There are many examples where the opposite is the case

None of these engineers built a dam, ship, or plane. They did some math and drew some lines, and some other people built the stuff.