CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@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.

@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.

@wesdym Yesithinkso.

@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.

@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.