Can you imagine the Department of Justice asking Apple to sell macOS and iOS or its open source Darwin project for having similar or identical features?

It is unlikely that Amazon will buy Bluesky, but it is likely that Amazon will do its own fork of Bluesky.

What if Linux foundation buys Chrome?

Party in the CIA

Party in the NSA

Party in the CSS

Party in the NRO

Party in the NGA

I curse patents

The Marginalia site reminds me of the Twilight Zone

Then there will be check marks for the accounts and priority in appearing in other users’ feeds.

I could mention all the forks that Linux currently has, please.

No changes until China decides to invade Taiwan and the sanctions that Russia currently has begin.

Soon the new COD will weigh 5TB

Are you referring to the Chinese, American or Dutch government to whom the subsidies will be offered?

In fact, they are going to remove third-party printer drivers and replace them with universal drivers. Link

Steam has a somewhat inconsistent interface in some aspects, but for some reason it is acceptable.

Well, something, but that action is only temporary because those companies that were the result of the division are reunited to form or are acquired by other large companies.

Obviously they will no longer be what they were in the original company. But something is something.

Will cooperatives really be able to offer good services or will they become corrupt sooner or later?

Let’s explore the scenarios

Scenario 1: GitLab is acquired by Google

Scenario 2: GitLab is acquired by Apple

Scenario 3: GitLab is acquired by a State government

Scenario 4: Gitlab is acquired by Amazon

Scenario 5: Gitlab is acquired by the Linux Foundation

Scenario 6: Gitlab is acquired by the Federal Government

Scenario 7: Gitlab is acquired by IBM

It is inherent risk and it is present everywhere. Just because there are bugs every now and then doesn’t mean there is a crash and you should also know that Linux was almost screwed by a backdoor that XZ Utils had, it doesn’t save open source.

The only thing you can do is to reduce it and if you don’t take precautions you will increase that risk.

According to the official Microsoft website, the Windows 11 LSTC version still gives a 10-year license.

Link

I don’t think there will be a collapse just because there is no meticulous maintenance or development. Most likely, in the future there will just be an accident or tragedy that will improve standards and safety.

If you want a collapse you have to pray that all the factors attack at the same time, because if only one does the attack they only strengthen humanity see Late Bronze Age collapse.

RT and RFE/RF are state media, but there is a difference. The former does not enjoy freedom and the latter does because of its firewall that prevents political interference.

Although the Trump administration tried to remove firewalls and introduce its inference that could have been harmful during that period.