This analysis is full of non sequiturs. Disappointed in DeVault.

ive just heard of an incident where students redirected their books codes to p**n

Where did you hear about this? It sounds suspiciously like someone misremembered the following incident where there was no malice or even intent, just incompetence and happenstance:

Children's snack recalled after its website caught serving porn

neither side appears to have the stomach to scale up the money/weapons/political costs necessary to drastically change the math

How does one "scale up the money"? That doesn't make sense.

You seriously believe that Ukraine is holding back? You think they wouldn't "drastically change the math"s if they could?

library

sale

Wut?

100 pounds worth of kids

That's pretty cheap!

Amazon bankrolling industry lobbying against Microsoft Azure should surprise no one

And it doesn't, so why am I seeing this headline?

Wayland ... uses some Linux-specific components or libraries

No. Wayland is a protocol, not software.

Ignorant fool.

Then probably the people to ask would be the Devuan people.

freedom of init system

What do you mean by this?

a new libre respecting laptop (Star Labs is thankfully available in India)

FYI, Star Labs' laptops require proprietary blobs.