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Good, one more reason to slowly push people out of Microsoft's clutches.
Yeah but today’s exemption is tomorrow’s loophole to be closed.
Ay? An exemption is not a loophole.
Right, it’s an exemption now.
But the age gate crowd will call it a loophole in the future.
Moaners: this is terrible because there's no guarantee it will remain this way in perpituity
This isn’t a great thing happening, this is a slight dent being put in a terrible thing happening.
Do not confuse the two.
it's not a 'loophole'. it's not an exception, either. it's a time bomb. if it becomes widespread, it's a literal death sentence for linux and foss on users' desktops.
A literal death sentence? Ok mate.
New reason to use Linux: You're seventeen years old and want to watch porn.
That's.... not too far from how I got into it. My parents didn't know how to find porn, music, or tv shows my my linux systems
I remember installing Ubuntu when I was like 14 because my parents had so much shit on the xp partition they used. This was on dial-up and Ubuntu 3 or 4 or something.
U can also just go to yandex.com and use the image search or any other site not beholden to U.S. laws
True but that's like saying that your spleen is you. I met that guy he's an asshole or maybe I was thinking of the sphincter. But I digress. There absolutely are people, good people at Microsoft that do contribute a lot to free and open source projects. But Microsoft as a company has been horrible for 40 years. Never good for anyone unless perhaps you are working for them?