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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: RonB Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Intel's co-CEO claims retailers say Qualcomm-powered PCs have high return rates, points to new competitors with Arm chips coming in 2025 Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 05:56:41 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 06:56:41 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d7a1de35a0347d18502ac70e1d25fc2f"; logging-data="3478165"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18kPfedmQsKxJRnkefDle2u" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:R7P0EY9mFw+n2WbI8wQLj+Dh6JY= Bytes: 2652 On 2024-12-20, CrudeSausage wrote: > Le 2024-12-19 à 19:28, chrisv a écrit : >> CrudeSausage wrote: >> >>> Le 2024-12-19 à 15:34, chrisv a écrit : >>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >>>> >>>>> Linux is the only platform that offers a full suite of software native for >>>>> both ARM and x86 (both 32- and 64-bit). Nobody else does. >>>> >>>> Payware vendors can't compete with the efficiency of FOSS. >>> >>> They can: they eventually implement features that the open-source world >>> will copy and implement later in a more rudimentary form. >> >> So where's the payware OS and software for, say, Raspbarry Pi? > > Where are the profits in producing an operating system and software for > such hardware? Open source is not profit driven. The Raspberry Pi computers make a lot of money for small start-up companies. But they're making hardware, not software. -- “Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good.” —J.R.R. Tolkien