I love how no matter how much the market makes it explicitly clear that an idea is absolutely terrible, Microsoft will just be like, “we’re doing it anyway, fuck you.” The best argument for Linux is just to gesture vaguely at Windows.

If they tried to close source it, someone would just fork it.

Idk, but I’ll tell you Dell and HP desktops are the opposite of the Thinkpad. Every part they can make proprietary, they do make proprietary.

• Case
• Motherboard
• Power Supply
• CPU Cooler

Cannot be upgraded or replaced with off the shelf parts.

If your system dies, you’re expected to just buy a new one and chuck the old one in the bin.

You don’t follow the license that it was distributed under.

Commonly, if you use open source code in your project and that code is under a license that requires your project to be open source if you do that, but then you keep yours closed source.

New life lesson: never volunteer for a for-profit company.

I’ll believe it when I see it.