As with a lot of 90s software, it’s a bit more complicated than which source code did they download (or, rather, mail order on floppy… because it was the 90s). Not the least of which is due to the fact that many of the projects don’t exist anymore and there weren’t that many copies to begin with.

However, they both embrace and extend LDAP and Kerberos among other open and not open projects of the time. Both choices were related to the results of the Protocol Wars and Microsoft’s attempts, in the 90s, to do to the Internet what Google is doing today.

Active Directory and Exchange were both based on open source projects. Embrace, extend, extinguish is Microsoft’s whole jam.

Let’s be honest though; Push-to-start exists. There is zero reason they can afford all their SWAT bullshit and can’t afford to make a car that auto starts when whoever is carrying the fob gets in.

Baby steps. Epic originally sued Apple because they couldn’t sell access to Fortnight outside of the App Store.

My main point was that Sony shouldn’t get special treatment.

They don’t leave firetrucks running…

My grandpa drove a semi truck;

The A/C was part of it, some truck stops even had a thing called “IdleAir” that was like a window unit so you didn’t have to leave your engine running. For semis nobody wants to sleep in a sunbaked box with no air.

But according to him, for the really big engines, turning it off and on causes more wear and tear than leaving it running. So back in the day when diesel was still very cheap compared to gas they all got in the habit of leaving it on all the time.

Even the cops leave their cars on all the time where I am from.

I mean… if Apple has to allow side-loading and alternative app stores then I think Sony should have to as well. It wouldn’t make sense to say that only Apple has dominion over the devices it makes and no other manufacturers operate the same.

Modern cars (in the US) are required to have an OBD-II Port for On-Board Diagnostics. I always assumed most cars these days were just sending some or all of the real-time OBD data to the manufacturer. GM definitely has been.

As a Native American this attitude would be a lot more understandable and palatable if America wasn’t colonized…

Yes, I mean it never hit its rated speed. Also that many modern sites didn’t work any better than they did on the dialup anyway.

My grandparents lived in rural OK and had dial-up until 2018 when they finally were able to get a 2mbps DSL line. It really wasn’t much faster than the dial-up.

Amazon is a technology company now. For a long time the storefront and logistics have been a tech demo for Amazon Web Services.

For instance: FreeRTOS

I think I would be more okay with having to undo a screw or two as long as it was still just as easy to get the battery out. The way the Advance SP and DSs handled it. Lithium batteries are slightly more unfriendly to being handled than AAs and this is a device aimed at children. Your point stands though.

Nokia didn’t suddenly go all in on Windows Phone, they were bought by Microsoft.

There were only ever like 2 phones that used MeeGo. Nokia primarily used an OS called Symbian before they were bought out.

Remind me, who is it that gets laid off first when the line starts going down…

Bot written articles were a thing before ChatGPT.

“Canada’s per capita case rate has generally been less than half that of the US"

Yes and no, warp speed only needed to exist in the form it did because Trump had fired the existing pandemic response team.

Where I am from several years ago the city renamed the Christmas Parade to Holiday Parade in a bid to be inclusive of other winter holidays. A small subset of citizens got butt hurt and have held a competing Christmas Parade several times.

Apparently the war on Christmas is acknowledging that there are other options.

What’s this ‘cutting’ nonsense??? The shelf is a feature!!!