Not an American... But holy crap... If Disney succeeds with this... then ... E-v-e-r-y single service will have a clause like "you hereby agree to never ever take legal action against us, our subsidiaries, cookie partners, affiliates, our friend's dog or Bob for anything we might or might not have caused in the next 2 billion years if we don't give you permission.".

I'm happy that I'm living in the European Union av and not in Florida.

In their motion to dismiss the indictment, defence lawyers argued that Trump was mistreated because he was prosecuted even though others who have challenged election results have avoided criminal charges.

So in Trump's world if not all are charged, no one should be? This is a school book example of a broken sense of justice and a slimy maggot trying to slither his way out of a problematic situation he created himself.

Dude, most of us had no problem staying away from trying to steal an election. If you did the crime, be prepared to do the time you whiny little ass carrot.

Going public introduces shareholders that prioritizes return on investment as opposed to making technology and knowledge about technology accessible for many.

It doesn't always end this way but often enough to worry about it...

Apple could have tried to work with them and said something like "We'll pay when the embargo ends"

.....aaaaand that would most likely be trying to circumvent the sanctions by essentially receiving credit from Kaspersky on delivered services.

Not saying the situation is optional, but the sanctions would be extremely toothless if it was that easy to circumvent.

which bans any act preventing harbours, airports, railways or roads “from being used or operated to any extent

Yes Alex, I'll take "legislation that would make French farmers setting up guillotines in Paris" for 500.

As a European I say: Let's go bitch!

We've been way too dependant on Russia. It's time we acknowledge the actual cost for cheap gas and oil from Russia.

No.

That was easy.

No no no! This is just av another example of the Russian economy booming!

A lot of people in this thread seem to downplay the article with "yeah, that might be your opinion..." but two facts that are facts and not opinions are:

1. The market share Firefox hold is insignificant.
2. Mozilla's business is a near 100% dependency on one "customer", Google.

This means that if Google decides to stop bank rolling Mozilla it's game over. Firstly because other revenue streams are currently near insignificant when you look at the total expenses.

Secondly because since Firefox hold no significant market share, no one else would be interested in investing in Mozilla and the future of Firefox. After all, whatever Mozilla will throw up on the wall as the "grand masterplan for world dominance" would just end up in the question "Why didn't you do this before?".

I've been using Firefox for almost 20 years. I started using it because I saw what happens when one company controls the browser market. That web browser did so much damage and we only really got rid of it some year ago.

Chrome is a perfect example that the history repeats itself and that people are fucking stupid. People are actually acting surprised and complain about Google putting effort into making adblocking impossible in Chrome.

So all in all, if Mozilla doesn't find other revenue streams, Firefox is dead... It just doesn't know it yet.

Now, everyone yapping about that Linux was an insignificant player and still made it to the top just sound like enthusiasts who really doesn't know history and the harsh reality of doing business.

Linux was just a little more than hobby project (business wise) that essentially only Red Hat and Suse made real money from in the 90's.

Arguably you could say that the turning point was when the CEO of IBM, Lou Gerstner, shocked the world by saying that IBM was going to pump in 1 billion dollars in Linux during 2001. Now, that doesn't look like much today when just Red Hat has a yearly revenue of 3-4 billion, but that's how insignificant Linux was at that time.

After that milestone Linux went for the jugular on Windows Server. For ordinary people it would still take almost 10 years before they would hold something Linux in their hands.

The rocket engine that accelerated Linux and pieces that it was ready for end users was Google and Android in 2007. Linux's growth the last 20 years wasn't mainly driven by enthusiasts, it was business pumping in money in future opportunities.

What future opportunities can Mozilla sell to investors with the market share Firefox has today?

In rejecting SpaceX's appeal, yesterday's FCC order said the agency's Wireline Competition Bureau "followed Commission guidance and correctly concluded that Starlink is not reasonably capable of offering the required high-speed, low-latency service throughout the areas where it won auction support."

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has acknowledged Starlink's capacity limits several times, saying for example that it will face "a challenge [serving everyone] when we get into the several million user range."

Isn't it Starlink that should fix this?

I've written this in other threads so it will just be a repetition for a lot of you who are following how the story unfolds.

Here in Sweden we don't have any laws defining "minimum wage" and some laws regulating things like minimum amount of vacation days can be "replaced" in an agreement.

Now, the idea is that the parties of the labour market, employers and employees should deal with these issues because politicians should stay the f*** away from things they know nothing about. The agreement is normally renegotiated by the employer organisations (yes, the employers are also organized here) and employee organisations (unions) every 2-3 years. While signing an collective agreement is not mandatory it is still expected. It's the norm.

In my experience employers refuse to agree on collective minimums is because they want to be able to do whatever they want with their employees.

Today's online communities are not like this. They are trapped inside apps and platforms,

How ironic... Reddit trying to lock me in was the exact reason why I stopped being active there....