Worse than that! Monthly!

Predates even XP...

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F... (around the 8 minute mark)

Thanks for the flashbacks! (*rolls eyes*)
I lost count of how many times I had to tell some braindead simpleton about how it did (end more importantly, did not) work!
(I would have used gormless, but you already did)

Which means, right now, the "I" part is still at your end of the keyboard.

Maybe so, but by then the hype will have dissipated, and it'll be being used in sensible fields, not just being crammed into anything that someone can con people into funding.

Not if you're a "bug-for-bug compatible" distribution (Alma, Rocky, etc), it isn't. They use the sources that are now effectively unavailable to build from as the new licencing tems prevent redistribution.

Furthermore - even though both Fedora and CentOS feed into RHEL, the sources for the individual distributions *won't* be identical at any given point in time - meaning you get statements from the likes of Alma, Rocky, etc explaining their current position:

(Alma)
"In the immediate term, our plan is to pull from CentOS Stream updates and Oracle Linux updates to ensure security patches continue to be released. These updates will be carefully curated to ensure they are 1:1 compatible with RHEL, while not violating Red Hat’s licensing"
"we are committed to remaining a downstream RHEL clone, and using CentOS Stream sources would make us upstream of RHEL. CentOS Stream sources, while being upstream of RHEL, do not always include all patches and updates that are included in RHEL packages"

(Rocky)
"Red Hat’s decision to limit the distribution of their sources has created a minor inconvenience for the Rocky Linux team"

which I would say disguises the panic behind the scenes while they try to find a (legal) way to replicate RHEL as they have done in the past.

"I Am Altering the Deal, Pray I Don't Alter It Any Further." comes to mind...

That only happens to those who fail to pay the protection money...

Proper design costs - I'd guess that the "it'll do" mantra applies so as not to cut into the profit margin?

What's that in giraffe masses?

I'd pop into Belmarsh if I were you - I'll wager Assange has a thing or two to say on that blinkered viewpoint.

Depends on your definition of "disappear" I guess - given "Its goal is to ensure Linux Mint can continue to deliver the same user experience if Ubuntu was ever to disappear." - if Ubuntu goes wholly Snap-based (or significantly enough to affect the ability to build Mint at all) then does that count?

My last/only Samsung (a S3 mini) was obsolete within 6 months of being purchased (a couple of months after it was released), so never going there again...

It did soldier on for a while thanks to Cyanogenmod et al, but even they gave up on it after a couple of years (probably should never have bought it to be honest)

I'd say the chances of such a beast existing in the wild are roughly the square root of naff all...

Agreed, but I'd love to see them try to write some jurisdiction-busting clauses into the legislation, just for the hell of it.

I'll wager it'll be some dumb schmuck in a local office that gets jail time, not the guys at the very top...