Makes sense to me. Why give their code and feedback to competitors? You want to keep your internal stuff internal.

Only once they realize it.

At least some of us get it.

This sounds like a case perfect for the Institute for Justice. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fij.org%2F Check with them because they love this kind of stuff.

The fact that more people are not worried about Flock and Ring is truly disturbing on a whole new level.

Sounds like they are deflecting from the backlash.

For now. Goggle is trying to lock down the sideloading and the play store.

They only use water because it is cheap. They can cool with no water use if needed. So a data center water tariff would change things dramatically.

Time to call it Open?AI

And many today won't even notice it missing...

Well, it has a 5 year warranty, so replace it under warranty, right?

A warning shot does not mean you will miss with the next one.

I will add my metoo... Funny enough it was the rampant trolling, spam and infighting that drove me off. Seems to be gone now. Hmmm...

Some devs have some strong beliefs. But they are kept in check by the others that can patch it or fork it. They tried putting in a hard coded filter on some far right key words, and had to backtrack.

No and no... First, Lemmy can not "go evil." Lemmy.ml can go evil. And people can chose not to federate with them. But there are lots of lemmy servers. And mastodon servers. And kbin... It is more like email. Yes, lemmy.ml is the gmail of the lemmy ecosystem, but you do not need a gmail account to send email. And yes, you need to pick you home carefully. Like email. And you need to pick the home for your group carefully as well. But you can, and they can move and it still works.