Note I wasn’t the one who said EEE upstream. I was just replying to the thread.
Hanlon’s razor is a thing, and I generally follow it. It’s just that I’ve seen Microsoft make so many “oops, our bad!” mistakes over the years that purely coincidentally gave them an edge up over their competition, that I tend to distrust such claims from them.
I don’t feel that way about all corps. Oracle doesn’t make little mistakes that accidentally harm the competition while helping themselves. No, they’ll look you in the eye and explain that they’re mugging you while they take your wallet. It’s kind of refreshingly honest in its own way.
Re:The first year of free-threaded Python
by dhruvrajvanshi on Friday May 16, 2025 @01:53PM
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> Oracle doesn’t make little mistakes that accidentally harm the competition while helping themselves. No, they’ll look you in the eye and explain that they’re mugging you while they take your wallet. It’s kind of refreshingly honest in its own way.
Fucking hell bud :D
OK, finally, yes, this is very true, for specific parts of their tech.
But banging on about EEE just distracts from this, more important message.
> Make it increasingly hard to use for FOSS development by starting to add barriers a little at a time. <= we are here
....and now you've lost me again