Re:'Securing Open Source Software Act' introduced to US Senate
by lioeters on Saturday September 24, 2022 @07:17AM
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> perfectly good and definitely >100% secure proprietary offerings that cost a reasonable amount
That part confused me too - I believe it's meant to be sarcastic. There's a kind of humor that I often don't get until further reflection, which is a way of saying things that are so overboard and absurd that the speaker cannot possibly believe what they're saying. Or rather, the speaker is saying the opposite of what they mean, in order to make their point. Might be a cultural thing.
This kind of humor is even harder to recognize these days, when people honestly do believe the absurd things that they're saying.
That part confused me too - I believe it's meant to be sarcastic. There's a kind of humor that I often don't get until further reflection, which is a way of saying things that are so overboard and absurd that the speaker cannot possibly believe what they're saying. Or rather, the speaker is saying the opposite of what they mean, in order to make their point. Might be a cultural thing.
This kind of humor is even harder to recognize these days, when people honestly do believe the absurd things that they're saying.