The GNOME foundation CEO does not directly control the technical direction of the GNOME project. Just like the Mozilla Foundation CEO does not directly control the technical direction of the Firefox browser, or the Linux foundation CEO directly control the technical direction of the Linux kernel.

Datacenters and hyperscalers, at least initially, where the need for backup/archive storage (for AWS, think about the S3 Glacier class storage tier) requirements are for a large amount of storage that ends up being essentially write only (never or rarely read). The fewer racks of storage (and power) the better for those use cases.

While most outside observers have agreed that the executive compensation is totally not justified given Mozilla's revenue/valuation, it mostly does not really matter in the bigger scheme of things, as it does not change the trajectory of the company as a whole (and even if you paid the CEO $0, it would hardly make a dent in the employee redundancy numbers given the fully encumbered costs of an employee in many of the locations Mozilla operates in and has engineering in (maybe "save" 20 engineering jobs once?)). "I coulda been a contender" should be Firefox's last blog post title in a few years when the current cash reserves of the Mozilla corporation are finally expended and the corporate funded development ends.

To be fair, Firefox may be doomed whether or not the Google revenue stops. It is now essentially irrelevant in the browser market share according to recent numbers (2-3%), and every year the percentage drops a little bit more (which means lower revenue), and every year more and more people use ad blockers (further reducing revenue). Losing the search fees all at once will simply accelerate the decline as an end to funding will make Firefox less and less relevant as it lags further behind the others due to needing to trim development expenses. The Mozilla foundation has repeatedly tried (and repeatedly failed) to find different funding models to support the organization. It is about out of options.

While it is good that they realized the hole in the foot was self inflicted, they will never walk quite right ever again.

The large customers that Redis wanted to pay them more forked the project, and are now having their engineers (who were substantial contributors to the Redis code base previously) work on that fork instead, and have introduced a number of noticeable improvements to that code that matter to those large customers (odds are they had been using variants of those improvements internally, but now are sharing). The mindshare is now with the valkey fork, not Redis.

Redis continues to hint at an IPO real soon now. I don't think their valuation is going to be what they hoped for just a few years ago.

In theory every separate BOM line item has a country of origin, and the tariffs apply on each line item individually. Tim knows logistics, so if Apple tries to claim they did not know the origin of every part he will be laughed out of court (along with a very large fine).

The requirement for origin of each and every part applies to every company, not just Apple, of course. It is (indirectly) yet another tax on the product in addition to the tariff itself as more work to track every part (and when parts change supplier countries) means higher costs.

Tesla had a first mover advantage. Now that there are viable alternative (in some cases cheaper, and for some market spaces better) choices available in the EV space they have to compete in a way they did not have to before. In other words, they have to become a real car company if they want to continue to be a car company.

One thing that Lenovo has done is to try to select components for their device that are either already supported by the Linux kernel, or themselves work/assist to get hardware support upstreamed into the kernel. As long as you don't purchase the latest greatest newly introduced model before the hardware support gets upstreamed and your distro makes it available to you linux support is typically rather good.

Larger organizations tend to have enterprise licensing for Windows, and don't use the Pro version either (there is the Enterprise version for them). For that matter, for very large organizational purchases, systems without any OS can be acquired and they can then use their organizations volume license agreements (all the manufacturers have specific channels to deal with the large organizations requirements (which tend to be very profitable)).

Just one example from recent SciFi: STTNG S2E9 The Measure of a Man. Is Data a sentient being, or just property?

And companies have been doing such shifts for decades to reduce their costs (whether that is labor costs, taxes, availability of materials, etc.). Only because it is Apple does it make the news cycle. And as the various situations change again over the next months (which almost everyone expects will happen even as few can agree on what the changes will be), manufacturing locations may shift all over again.

Software support for SR-IOV on dCPUs that advertises support is not, exactly, new. The C-levels will decide if it is ever available on any actual shipping consumer dGPUs (and their revenue stream targets suggests it is not going to happen).

I had been fortunate to ride with an employee in the pre-beta days (only employees got to "hail" a ride), and then as an early rider in a targeted city, and now as a semi-regular rider in another city (I also was, in a previous life, a semi-regular taxi rider in one of the largest taxi cities in the US). The Waymo robotaxi's can be extremely conservative in some of their choices, but I would schedule (and ride) them in an instant, as they just work and are competitive in pricing. And that, in the end, will be the defining requirement for most.

They will likely get it. Space is hard. The FCC understands that.

First, replace Anthropic's CEO.