Keep being smart.

You are smart.

So an extremely small percentage of them can have excessive wealth like paul?

Hard pass.

Yeah, and they still make music.

How much do they need, though?

You people never factor this in. It’s always an on-off switch in your minds.

Keep in mind, these businessmen only hate AI because it threatens their money.

This is Israeli spyware.

They own you.

I’d wager they just have a fundamental misunderstanding of how the free software ecosystem operates.

You could take it as an opportunity to educate them on how distros are cobbled together from software made by different people, most of whom have no affiliation with the distro in question.

Sorry you had to live with that.

We don’t get to choose our family.

You don’t understand.

It’s not a problem if corporations profit off of it. It’s a problem when they extend a program without giving the public access to those changes.

Why would it say that additional security updates are locked behind ESM even when I’m on a maintained version?

Back when I used Ubuntu, I would always get a message when I logged in telling me that security updates are available, but only through some kind of subscription-based program.

It’s a big reason why I switched to Debian.

You should look into the origins of OS X and CellOS.

Your pathetic rhetoric actively contributes to making people richer than you even richer.

Stop selling yourself out just because it’s easy.

A little bit.

A lot of the Rust remakes are being made by morons who have no problem using weak licenses that favor corporations.

We should hold them accountable and avoid using/contributing to their projects until they switch to a free license.

Anyone who pays for this is very smart.

I encourage all of you to spend your money so you can fit in with the other people on the internet spending money.

This is cheaper than buying an ad.

Okay.

You are very smart for spending the money. Please spend more and get angry at anyone who dares criticize you for it.

They are bad people and you are good.

I just love it when you spend money.

It makes you smart and makes me value your opinion more.

Yes, I save money like an idiot.

oh no, he made me feel self-conscious about what I waste my money on!

I know, let’s claim he’s trolling and hope a mod comes in to censor him!

Consumerism is a disease.

Don’t worry about it.

Just spend more money.