That's my understanding. It's a long time ago but I believe they bought out Sun when they were facing bankruptcy.

If they'd released the x86 version of Solaris when it became clear that SPARC couldn't keep up with Intel and AMD that could have been a possibility.

Solaris was such an amazing OS.

I dont have a dog in this fight.

Of course you do. Allowing borders to be redrawn by force isn't good for stability anywhere.

Agreed. I think a huge part of it is down to how many kids are vaping here too. Saw an interview with the Taoiseach (prime minister) and he said 13% of 12-17 year olds had vaped in the last 30 days. Pretty crazy number.

Well I am delighted. €13.1B + the 1.2 in interest represents what will be a bump of 16% of total tax revenue compared to 2023 (€88B total). There are lots of things that money can be used for.

Are you using a VPN maybe?

Must be great to have such a consistent shipper of arms that lets you use them however you want.

We don't really have that whole active shooter thing here tbh.

He doesn't strike me as violent, just a self important cunt.

Our small company paid a prominent (of that specific driver) open source driver writer for prioritisation of some work more than once. All the code was GPL.

I know it's only one data point but it's one way.

This one sparks joy.

Some days, I even think maybe I might be a good person too

You sound like a good person to me. That level of self reflection rarely / never leads to being a shithead in my experience.

Crazy story but a very interesting read. Thanks for sharing.