Everything might be a file in Linux.

[ribbbitn3rding@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss ... yeah, but also Hans Reiser. ...and both RMS and ESR have their... "unsavory" sides. Sure, Bill Gates is ... "Woody Allen as Bond Villain"... but... let's not build our evaluation of software solely on the moral scruples of individual persons.

[ribbbitn3rding@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss ...and just to be clear, I'm in the "Microsoft and all its products are collectively a dumpster fire in a vat of napalm deep in the bowels of a drifting, abandoned, fully-loaded LNG tanker on an ocean of liquid methane in a pure-oxygen atmosphere" camp. My attitude toward Microsoft and its products arises from the merits of the products and the business practices of the company.

[utf_7@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss right in the context but technically wrong
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/search

[avoca@gladtech.social]

@itsfoss

You are correct about the method of obtaining respect.

But, it would be wise to remember how quickly it is lost.

[csolisr@hub.azkware.net]

On the other hand (of the GNU/Linux equation), I wonder how did Stallman end up

[atlovato@mastodon.social]

@odioMasto @itsfoss

[atlovato@mastodon.social]

@avoca @itsfoss -True

[atlovato@mastodon.social]

@ribbbitn3rding @itsfoss - Good Analysis - I like it.

[atlovato@mastodon.social]

@ribbbitn3rding @itsfoss - I've used windows laptops for some time and Windows 98 was easy to work with. the best on all os systems. However I will always prefer a Mac any day.

[qwey@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss bill gates is not sorry, he just wants to be seen as a good guy meanwhile he's idiot

[alansdawson@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss just because someone is in the files does not make them guilty of anything and gates have denied any wrongdoing - insinuating stuff like this isn't helpful for anyone

[wilfredo@fosstodon.org]

@itsfoss

But... ️ Bash Shell Manual is part of Epstein Files

[wesdym@mastodon.social]

@odioMasto Gates left MS 20 years ago.

[wesdym@mastodon.social]

@qwey I'm torn between whether your childishness or horrible writing is more offensive to me.

Oh well. Bye.

[wesdym@mastodon.social]

@ribbbitn3rding ... ... ... ... ... ...

Amidointirite?

[wesdym@mastodon.social]

@ribbbitn3rding Oh, you're so witty. Your colourful use of language has me swooning. I'm going to have to take 30 days away from it to recover.

[itsfoss@mastodon.social]

@odioMasto

[ribbbitn3rding@mastodon.social]

@wesdym Yesithinkso.

[ribbbitn3rding@mastodon.social]

@wesdym fwiw, I'm all for pureeing Bill Gates, kiln-drying the resulting paste, compacting the resulting solids into a pellet of immense density, and dropping it down the Kola super-deep borehole, but Microsoft has managed to be a shit company making shit software and treating their customers like shit without his direct guidance. It seems to me we don't need Gates' monstrous personal behavior as an excuse to condemn Microsoft and its products.

[ribbbitn3rding@mastodon.social]

@wesdym also, while you're fanning away the vapors, consider this: Just because Linus Torvalds has not been found to appear in the Epstein Files doesn't mean he's a saint. I would suggest evaluating the software on its merits and the people on theirs.