• santa@sh.itjust.works
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      17 days ago

      There are plenty of people at Microsoft that also help support OSS. A number of developers there also frequently contribute to FreeBSD.

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        17 days ago

        True but that’s like saying that your spleen is you. I met that guy he’s an asshole or maybe I was thinking of the sphincter. But I digress. There absolutely are people, good people at Microsoft that do contribute a lot to free and open source projects. But Microsoft as a company has been horrible for 40 years. Never good for anyone unless perhaps you are working for them?

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        17 days ago

        That’s… not too far from how I got into it. My parents didn’t know how to find porn, music, or tv shows my my linux systems

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        I remember installing Ubuntu when I was like 14 because my parents had so much shit on the xp partition they used. This was on dial-up and Ubuntu 3 or 4 or something.