Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro

From	candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro
Date	2025-12-19 14:50 +0000
Organization	the-candyden-of-code
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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
-- 
user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-13 14:26 +0100
  Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro bonkmaykr <bonkyboo@canithesis.org> - 2025-12-13 07:38 -0600
    Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-12-13 14:08 +0000
      Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-17 01:41 +0000
        Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-12-17 08:01 -0800
        Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-12-19 14:50 +0000
          Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-19 18:05 +0000
    Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro Farley Flud <fflud@gnu.rocks> - 2025-12-13 14:56 +0000
      Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-12-13 15:52 +0000
        Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-13 18:00 +0000
          Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-17 01:37 +0000
        Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-14 00:10 +0100
          Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-12-14 12:03 +0000
      Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro CtrlAltDel <Altie@BHam.com> - 2025-12-14 10:41 +0000
        Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro bonkmaykr <bonkyboo@canithesis.org> - 2025-12-14 06:23 -0600
        Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-14 13:27 +0100
          Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-14 18:26 +0000

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