AWS claiming that on-prem solutions are competition to UK regulators is like Apple insisting the App Store isn't a monopoly to EU regulators, Google asserting that Chrome isn't dominating the web to the DoJ, or Microsoft denying its omnipresence over the workplace. It's laughable. Seriously, did anyone here actually bother to read beyond the headline?
Those are indeed similar situations, but your examples except the first one do not come from the article. So it is not clear why do you assume that everyone did not read beyond the headline.
If you dig into the article, it's evident that AWS is just trying to appease the UK's Competition and Markets Authority. To claim there's no competition would be a monumental blunder, like a government declaring there's no need for a military during a war. They don't really believe that on-prem is serious competition, but they pretend to in order to avoid litigation.
There is no legal meaning behind and no legal protection for the term open source. A proprietary software license can use the term open source in the license and define it as the source code is available. Legal systems don't care about what some random organization like the OSI thinks open source stands for.
Which is why when a company releases a license that they claim is "Open Source" and it's not compatible with the OSI definition, then we need to stand up and say bullshit.
They are welcome to release it any way they like. If they think they can somehow fool developers by calling it Open Source when it isn't, well good for them. If you as a developer want to contribute to, and promote, their product then go for it.
But if it's not Open Source then I call bullshit, and don't be surprised when the -Open Source- community gets upset.
All of these problems are Windows problems too. I don't get why Linux gets all the hate for it.
> I had 2 Linux Dell laptops in a row that either had Wifi OR bluetooth, never both. I swapped the radio in the second one and things were okay for awhile.
I had a Windows laptop that came with broken wifi and bluetooth as well as a BIOS-enforced wifi card whitelist that prevented me from swapping out the wifi card.
> Neither of these, nor the Asus laptop I later purchased supported sleep/hibernate when the lid closes.
Yes, so does my Windows laptop. It's why I always shut it down completely before going anywhere.
> My current workstation that runs Ubuntu 22.04 and now 24.04 was going great until I got some update that swapped me back from Wayland to X11. Now things are weird and I've got to make time to fuck with it to figure out how to make this RTX 4080 work with Wayland.
An NVIDIA update gave people with my laptop model a blackscreen. NVIDIA only fixed this half a year or so later.
The Court of Justice of the European Union clarified that the operator of a search engine is not required to carry out a de-referencing on all versions of its search engine. So, it's a bit bold of you to say that Europe is trying to control the entire internet when they explicitly told Google they're allowed to limit the impact to Europe alone.
Also, the "right to be forgotten" suggests more rights of the data subject than the text of the article provides for. The title is often understood by data subjects to be an absolute right to have personal data deleted - however if the controller has a legal basis for the processing of personal data, the exercise of Article 17 GDPR has usually no effect.
It feels more like YouTube just doesn't prioritize an unpopular browser. Google only put resources into Firefox so they can say they're not a monopoly, but that strategy didn't really pan out. So, now, they're probably going to stop caring about Firefox altogether.
No, the EC asked ChatGPT to rewrite the Privacy Shield but give it another name, and the CJEU is expected to retroactively invalidate the law again. This will only change if the US provides essentially equivalent privacy protection laws, which they don't.
But then why not just shut the whole thing down? Tell customers that the services will be shutdown January 1st. 2026 and yank the remaining device from the store? That's where we're heading anyway.
Not sure who's arguing what and on what side here but when making a sandwich, adding dressing or oil to the sandwich is often referred to as "adding a lubricant" to the sandwich.
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