If I hadn't already bought one before all this AI-induced production chain ruination, but also knowing what I now know about it and how I've used it, I might still pay those prices for it.
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why anyone would trust these companies to pay out
AFAIK, they historically have
why anyone would help them fix their problems at this point
They're not "helping," they're trying to get paid by finding exploits legally, rather than using them illegally. And if someone is particularly good, it can be lucrative work. It's historically been a mutually beneficial arrangement, so it's ironic if M$lop thinks they can cut out human researchers (ostensibly swapping them for AI agents) and still maintain a secure codebase.
To me, this is M$lop trying to cut costs from the wrong thing; may they get what they deserve.
ETA: and if they make it impossible to make a living at reporting exploits legally, there's really only one option left to make a living...
Not really that crazy when you consider that the people in charge could have had a sweetheart deal with manufacturers in China, but they cut off all trade partners and all soft power channels, because they're drooling buffoons who won't accept that the US shifted to a global economy decades ago nor do they grasp how global economies work—mainly because they fired every expert under the pretense of "government waste."
All they know how to do is grift and defraud, and the chance to maintain global hegemony is long past. It's China's time, now, and they know it.
Classic abuser language. Take it to the extreme to make the reasonable person sound unreasonable, then make it out that you're their victim.
Conservatism and DARVO go hand in hand.
The limited info I could find says that it's something sellers can set up individually, rather than something Epic is doing themselves. But I'm 80% sure that bit was written by an LLM, so no idea how accurate it is.
I mean, that's the impetus in many cases lol
But for real, there's a word or phrase that was coined specifically for drawing a dick (or something else) on a pothole/crack/broken thing to get the city to fix it.
That's nuts. Thanks for the source! I hadn't heard about that
This court order is going to have an uphill battle in getting non-us juristictions to want to comply as well.
Doubly so, because the Trump Regime hasn't exactly been building any kind of equity with the rest of the world. There's no favors upon which they can draw anymore, especially when they've been actively trying to shit on and screw over virtually everyone.
I think there's an actual term for that kind of activism, but I can't recall what it is.
It's one of those situations where the government won't do something about a pothole or maintenance issue, and there's endless committees and paperwork, but when it's "vandalism," they rush in and "fix" it.
if you do not comply with court orders of the country you are based in, you can close up shop
This is exactly the case for every VPN and network operator. Some take steps to remediate issues around anonymity, and some even offer ways to pay anonymously, but no company is going to break the law for you.
I have issues with Proton's head being far too conciliatory to Trump, but the email thing wasn't something they could do anything about, because it's an inherent flaw with how email works; it was a court order to which they were compelled to comply, whether they wanted to or not.
I've never heard of either of these things. Do you have sources?
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It sounds like you're concerned with EEE: embrace, extend, extinguish. While that might be a problem for centralized pieces of software, who are dependent upon revenue streams, core distros like Debian, Arch, Fedora, and openSUSE are developed and maintained by the community (and sponsors).
If sponsors all pulled their funding tomorrow, the projects would not suddenly cease to get updates. By extension, sponsors don't get special seats at the table just for being a sponsor; it's not some corporate buy-in where they get 5% voting share for donating $1M to fund hobbyists to work on the code full-time. Likewise, they don't have special push access to inject "features" (read: enshittification) into the codebase that will eventually hamstring the code. Somebody would notice a bad pull-request and say something.
And even if they miraculously did, the codebase is open source. There are enough motivated people in the world who would fork the code into something free and open again. It's one of the biggest strengths of FOSS.
Sponsorships help the development happen faster, but sponsors are not the drivers of Linux—we are. Choose the distro you like, and enjoy!
Then why sponsor?
As a sidenote, you might be asking why sponsors would give money to these projects: