“Microsoft, a tech company historically known for its opposition to the open source software paradigm, turned to embrace the approach in the 2010s. From the 1970s through 2000s under CEOs Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, Microsoft viewed the community creation and sharing of communal code, later to be known as free and open source software, as a threat to its business, and both executives spoke negatively against it.”
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What are you smoking, and where can I get some?
Not to diss Gates or Allen, but neither is a savant of any kind.
What does it say about me that I only buy two kinds of socks: black Carhartt work socks and white Hanes ankle socks, so the drawer is just divided into two piles?
Damn, that’s a better idea than the board-stretcher!
White-knighting for a rando over poor grammar? Wow, Lemmy really is just like Reddit!
Then, they should learn to write more clearly because that arrangement of words does not convey that message.
right handed hammer, screwdriver.
A what now?
I’ve been a carpenter for over thirty years, but I’ve never heard of or seen such a thing, and I can’t even imagine what one would look like. Hammers and screwdrivers are (generally) bilaterally symmetrical.
This is the perfect sub for such a question! Perhaps YOU would be better off on some other site? Or, outside touching grass?
One of the very few things I actually miss from that other site.
I got permanently banned and IP blocked for delivering a full-on rant to one of those do-not-reply automod emails!
I should kill that friend that drove home after one beer too many, because he could have potentially killed someone.
I’ll allow it.
Someone says that at work at least once a week.
The dude abides.
Holy fuck! Can I get whatever drugs you’re on?
Right?
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God damn, it’s been a while since I’ve crossed paths with an honest-to-god rube! Keep on keepin’ on, you flickering bulb.
…has nothing to do with the OP’s question.
Legit tech guys, sure.
You called them “computer savants legitimately trying to push the boundaries of human technology past is limits” [sic] in the previous comment and that is what I was calling out.
You sounded like an awed cultist talking about their leader!