> Linux people are very resistant to this

Because security people often does not know the balance between security and usability, and we end up with software that is crippled and annoying to use.

> Title is misleading Well, it's easier to get engagement with some bait.

I wish it wasn't more or less a standard these days..

Not surprised it took so long, the decision makers seems to be quite out of touch with the user base.

Which makes me believe that their "walk back" is just to change the packaging of the same old "slop" being shoved down their customers throats.

> Its kernel, libc, and much of its software is closed source, so when Commodore folded its story was over.

I am certain someone have the full source code somewhere, I just hope that they eventually say "f--k it, it has been 36 years, let the world have it".

Somebody definitely had the full source code back in 1995 when I tried my best to figure out who to contact.

While I succeeded in making contact with the right person, it quickly transpired that the full source code was subject to proof of having a valid Novell license. Needless to say, no such license was available at ESCOM at the time and an opportunity was lost, perhaps permanently.

That said, I would be mighty surprised if the full AT&T SVR4 source code which was the foundation for Amiga Unix has never been accidentally/intentionally leaked. Could be a fun summer project to rebuild Amiga Unix from scratch ;-)

Not only that, isn't Commodore now owned/run by Peri Fractic / Christian Simpson? It seems if anyone is going to be open to these kinds of retro projects, it's going to be the new Commodore ownership.

https://www.commodore.net/team

"Commodore" is, but "Amiga" isn't. There was a split many decades ago. I lost track of all the drama.

AIUI the rights to old Commodore Amiga stuff (pre 4.x) are now held by Cloanto which so far has been reasonably friendly to the new Commodore folks.

Yes and no. Cloanto isn't like Bill McEwen's Amiga Inc., but it's litigious towards Hyperion and several others. They're not good people. Another greedy corporation milking the corpse of Commodore. Absolute... jerks. Trying to work on my language, but I'd love to call them worse.

Hyperion charge money for the OS and don't pay the developers at all, if anyone is greedy it's them

AFAICT Cloanto is milking Amiga, and Hyperion is actually updating OS 3.1/3.2 plus their OS 4 stuff.

Probably. Most of AmigaOS (Workbench and Kickstart) got "released" on github about 10 years ago.

I believe the level will simply be adjusted then, the middle class end up being heavier taxed.

But that is usually a fairly large group, and if they feel taxes are too much, they will listen to any politician that promises a solution.

Then it can become pretty nasty...

I have no hope for Vimeo.

BS took over Evernote and I cancelled the subscription after a year. Their idea of value for the customer vs the price is not realistic.

Bending Spoons: Wow, they gave us money for a year!

spending X00 million dollars to get maybe $200 out of a user is certainly a flex.

That’s exactly how their economics work. I do wonder exactly what numbers they are working with.

Just realized the acronym for Bending Spoons is BS. Seemingly appropriate.

In my youth -- the mid-90s -- one of the most scathing slurs our circle of friends could bestow on a person was that they were 'a spoon-bender'.

Uri Geller being a … well, this is a family site. Finish that yourself.

I'm still mad at Uri Geller for suing Nintendo and preventing Kadabra from appearing in games.

I may be too cynical but when it comes to politicians, the disconnect feels more than a rule than exception.

It is hard to vote, being buttered up with promises and pretty speeches, just to be disappointed halfway to next election.

No it’s not. It’s made very easy to vote and it has only been made easier and more people have been given the vote. That’s the whole point, so you on the one hand believe you have your say, and on the other hand the expansion of the vote was always for the purpose of drowning out the vote of intelligent, informed, smart, invested, productive people.

For every vote the most informed and well read and intelligent person has, whose family built everything there is in any democracy…every single year of your life there is one additional foreign, alien, hostile person that was just given the right to vote along with the 5 children they will have to your 1.5 to all vote against you.

That’s why the rich don’t vote, they got politicians, institutions, academics, organizations, etc. that’s our vote, we vote millions and billions of times with dollars, while importing millions of people who totally neutralize your vote and say every single time you go through that charade called voting.

Another happy davx5 user here, it is so good I donated.

I use pelican, with a bunch of self-made plugins, and it works very well. There's a few commits every month, so it's not a dead project.