Uh, if they didn’t ask for it, how is Microsoft going to make them pay for it?

More like most of us don’t care to read past the headline.

Hot take, common words should not be patentable.

Thank you, I saw Forbes and was immediately suspicious of click bait.

I love how the problem isn’t the people being hurt by monopolistic behavior, but other companies.

We really are fucked.

Uhh, nobody famous?

The event wasn’t similar to other events. Other events didn’t have a high chance of pissing off major clients. I feel like we need daily Public Service Announcements, “Your employer does not care about you, they only care about your effect on their profits.”

Over and over again we see this lesson. And while I applaud anyone willing to risk their job to protest their employer’s clients, I’m not going to act surprised when they get fired.

That era started in the 1700’s Adam Smith ranted about a lack of accountability in corporations.

Otoh, Roblox is evil and you could just use the switch to Linux to be like, “oh no, I guess we can’t have Roblox anymore!”

The idea that locking phones is good for customers is a great example.

Sure thing buddy. Just put the shovel down. You’re only digging yourself in deeper.

Damn and I nearly made it the whole year without this stupid shit in my life. Oh well, there’s always 2025!

May you never learn what state sponsored violence actually looks like.

You made a declarative statement that nobody would work full time for free.

So explain volunteers.

Explain volunteers then.

Just stop. This is the same bad faith rabbit hole libertarians use to say the government is all violence, from safety codes to taxes.

Yeah I should have been more clear. That’s the way it should work. Instead the courts interpret the 4th amendment as narrowly as possible. Making it effectively non-existent in many cases.

Okay? The company will be the one to enforce their license.

This is where paranoia comes into play. That’s Apple’s information. Not anyone else’s. If you believe Apple is selling it to this company and ignoring the phone setting that enables it then use the faraday bag.

But this company is not getting that information directly. It gets your information from cell tower pings at best, and social media scraping at worst.

Yes. I’m not saying it’s not monopolistic behavior. I’m saying it’s not a government sanctioned monopoly.

That’s not just my opinion. That’s the definition going straight back to Adam Smith.