It sounds like a bug. Tesla did the same thing and it resulted in a lot of Teslas dying prematurely because the flash memory wore out due to all the logging.

They tried to charge people to fix it too.

If you believe others the Latvian company was a subsidiary of a Russian company so they could sell a fork of the Russian R7-Office in the EU. Lots of finger pointing back and forward about who is the original and who is the master.

The only thing clear is that there was definitely a link between the companies.

Actually it's complicated. On first glance it was a Latvian product from a Latvian company. You need to do some real digging to get back at the Russian roots - few of which are in English.

It turns out neither of them are president right now and thus your comment is irrelevant to the situation at hand. Even in politics not everything needs to be about partisanship. We criticised Obama at the time, we criticised Biden at the time, and we will criticise Trump, just like we did last time too (except for DrMrLordX who insisted in 2024 that Trump won't pass this because he's mad it was used against his staffers in 2026 [sic - he meant 2016], lets see how well his post ages).

That's not strictly true either. One of the problems is literally the logistics of it. Major airports like CDG and AMS have no constrain in their jet supply. Their local refineries have no capacity reduction. The issue is keeping an airport running requires local supply. This is usually pipelines, for smaller airports it is trucks. So yes some airports get supplies from some refineries which buy oil from constrained sources. Fuel shortages is not going to affect everywhere, it's not a fungible resource that can be traded within Europe.

This is more the the IEA making a case to ensure that the EU maintain resources as a policy, not a specific imminent problem.

Speaking of unpopular prices are already high. KLM is literally cancelling flights because they aren't profitable to fly and prices have gone up dramatically for new tickets already. Everyone is already pissed at trump.

This isn't an EU problem, it's an economic one.

I think you don't understand how resources work. Not every country has resources of their own, that's why international trade is so critical. Europe literally cannot function without importing oil. The stuff simply doesn't exist in sufficiently available quantity within their borders.

Why do you think there is such a push to electrify everything? Sun and wind know no artificial map boundaries. It is a truly universal resource.

That's objectively false. For example the EU has over 100million tonnes of stockpiles in government strategic reserves. Every refinery additionally has well over a week's of oil processing capacity. If 100% of crude oil stopped flowing into the EU it would take several months before refineries stopped running at full capacity.

having a tantrum and threatening to pick up your bat and ball and go home. Except there are other bats and balls already laying around. Identical ones even. This seems like a completely self-destroying empty threat. If OnlyOffice goes closed source it doesn't matter, there is already a fork for the wider community to continue working on even in a capacity that may be funded by Nextcloud or similar organisations.

This makes no sense. There was no patent related reason FAT32 couldn't be have larger sizes, and in fact since the issue was Windows GUI related only vendors could do any number of user friendly yet completely solutions:

a) Format FAT32 in hardware without limit.
b) Provide FAT32 formatting in their software without limit.
c) Provide a simple GUI front end that calls Windows existing formatter from the command line to format without limit.

Specifically I use a lot of memory cards in a lot of different devices. One thing I've not done in 20 years is formatted a memory card in Windows. All devices with memory card provide means to format them or "initialise" them internally. So while the exFAT debate may have been a thing back in 2010 the reality is users ultimately didn't find themselves in a position to format devices themselves in the exFAT format.

About the only time users formatted anything themselves it was USB sticks for PC-to-PC data transfer, and they weren't using exFAT for that.

Who said a movie rip is pirated? Are you ignorant or a corporate bootlicker continuing to spread the lie that format conversion is 100% legal and not piracy?

It could format them from the command line. Just the GUI gave you no option to do so.

It didn't really, Linux support was via a FUSE using Paragon's proprietary driver, and the latter definitely paid Microsoft. Samsung also had a driver of dubious quality and even more dubious legality. It was used in Samsung products (paid for by Samsung) but the rest of the Linux world didn't touch it. The second exFAT had it's IP released (August 2019) exFAT was submitted to the 5.4 Kernel release.

Yes they did. How did you miss this? This was the specific reason that the Linux kernel did *NOT* explicitly support exFAT (no capitalisation on the first letter) until 2019. Prior to 2019 if you used exFAT it was via a user space and closed source FUSE driver that was provided and paid for by Paragon. If you wanted to include exFAT support in Linux you did so via Paragon's *paid for* software. In 2019 Microsoft opened the specification and made them patent cost free and a very VERY rough exFAT driver made it into Kernel 5.4

In 2020 Samsung (who had their own proprietary exFAT driver to Microsoft's spec) open sourced their own driver and released it for the 5.7 Kernel release.

But prior to August 2019 Microsoft got money for you reformatting exFAT in Linux.

That is just not the case. Ticket scalping has existed for all eternity even in places in the world where there aren't anti-trust issues. Having 100 different venues each with their own ticketing system does precisely nothing to stop the practice when ${popular_artists} comes to ${venue} and someone rushes and buys up all the tickets to scalp them online.

Even back before the days of ticket master a typical venue offered you possibly one... maybe a maximum of two places you could source the tickets. Anti-trust will just have no effect on this.

Also your scenario literally doesn't work now either. You can't buy an entire run of a handful of venues. Tickets are only released for a specific venue at a specific time, never for an entire tour at once. Whether a scalper goes to Ticketmaster to get tickets from Amsterdam Arena at 9:00am and then Ticketmaster again at 11:00am for the Volksparkstadion in Hamburg, or if they need to go to two different website to get tickets is completely irrelevant to them.

I have a better one for you: People don't respect their own privacy and their own data, but they do tend to respect not getting scammed.

You want to end scalping? Do a test charge on people's credit card to verify its the same card which purchased the ticket at the gate. The number of people who will hand over a functioning credit card to a complete stranger buying a ticket is smaller than the number of people who will stare into an orb for the nebulous reason of "privacy".