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Subject: Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:50:03 -0000 (UTC)
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Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 01:41 this Wednesday (GMT):
> On 13 Dec 2025 14:08:25 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
>
>> Le 13-12-2025, bonkmaykr <bonkyboo@canithesis.org> a écrit :
>>>
>>> This isn't an uncommon thing for FOSS developers once they're depended
>>> on, despite the clear disclaimers that they provide zero warranty.
>> 
>> That disclaimer isn't limited to FOSS. Last time I checked Microsoft
>> licence, I saw the same guaranty. But if big companies know they can't
>> sue Microsoft, they believe that guaranty is only there to protect big
>> companies, not FOSS developers.
>
> There is this irony in an excuse often put forward by BigCorps™, as to why 
> they prefer to pay lots of money to proprietary companies like Microsoft, 
> instead of using Free software and managing their own support thereof: the 
> “one throat to choke” excuse. That is, they claim that, in the event of 
> problems with the software, they can go back to the owning vendor to get 
> it sorted out, there should be no pointing of fingers at others.
>
> Except it doesn’t work in practice, does it? When was the last time a 
> company or Microsoft (or Oracle, or whoever) was successfully sued over 
> the (lack of) quality of its software?


It also ends up affecting everyone when something goes wrong, which is
super annoying cough cloudflare
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