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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: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 07:39:29 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 57 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 08:39:31 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c63a894387317e45d7ebb9b830c81680"; logging-data="4142022"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/gY6U+zIRGImx/Tvk4usW/" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:At8/u1iDC+DWPRAaj8zLUeUdimg= Bytes: 4272 On 2024-12-20, CrudeSausage wrote: > Le 2024-12-20 à 13:28, RonB a écrit : >> On 2024-12-20, CrudeSausage wrote: >>> Le 2024-12-20 à 00:56, RonB a écrit : >>>> 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. >>> >>> And this is why GNOME is a few months away from going bankrupt as is >>> Mozilla after Google's legal loss. This is also why KDE nags you for >>> donations when you first use the desktop environment. Say what you will >>> about open-source users, but they're pretty bad at giving money to the >>> organizations that produce the software they use. This is also why the >>> most talented programmers working on open-source eventually give up and >>> produce software that they can sell. >> >> A quick lookup on the GNOME Foundation (not GNOME's) supposed upcoming >> bankruptcy. And exchange from two posters on Reddit... >> >> Who started this fake news saying that GNOME would "go bankrupt"? I'm >> really curious. We're talking about a non-profit organization. >> >> Lunduke. It's always f-ing Lunduke. >> >> Hope someone sues his ass one day for this type of shit. >> >> I'm guessing that the Lunduke moron was your "source" (so to speak). > > It was indeed Lunduke, but he's basing his report on GNOME's own > numbers. I hope that you'll apologize when it indeed goes bankrupt not > too long from now. I won't be holding my breath. -- “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