I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley.

Absolutely no excuse that this happened, but I believe the point he is trying to make is that they didn’t make any money on it. Still a shitty thing to let happen, and it should simply never have happened at all, but it’s still better than if they had sold it and made a profit, I guess.

On a related note, the website cheat.sh is also a great resource. Just curl it with the command you want to learn about as the endpoint.

For example, if I want to learn about grep, just open a terminal and

$ curl cheat.sh/grep

And a short and sweet description with examples will be returned.

Called “Song About Don Quixote” https://www.lewandowski.art/en_US/p/POSTER-SONG-ABOUT-DON-QUIXOTE/157

Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta. Pretty much all the big tech companies really need a visit from the FTC.

I’m assuming that this would primarily be used on a headless system, but I’m curious if this would be feasible for use with a desktop environment as well.

If the performance isn’t hit too bad and it’s not too buggy, I could see myself potentially doing something like that on Silverblue or MicroOS. That way if my userspace ever becomes too cluttered or broken, I can just spin up a new container without completely reinstalling.

A little over a week ago, SUSE also announced they would be releasing their own binary compatible RHEL clone with $10 million of backing. So it looks like they were planning to take advantage of this uproar from the beginning.

I don’t think the shareholders care a whole lot unless stuff like this actually costs them customers. I am curious to know what some of the Red Hat developers think about this whole situation, though.