Apparently, 12% of Technology Workers Believe that MacOS is based on Linux
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chocolate milk comes from brown cows type situation
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Mostly because Microsoft tries to maintain backwards compatibility to ridiculous extents, and their customers grew accustomed to it so they kinda rely on it, no ?
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It's based on BSD like Mach kernel
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why though?
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In either case, its a quick copy/paste on my part, so /shrug.
I was thinking "okay this somewhat unconventional but whatever" until I read this. Use greasemonkey or something for the love of Christ!
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You agreed to the ToS given by the library.
Hence why you have to get a library card to check out a book.
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artistic licence innit - based being the opposite of cringe.
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No, it doesn't matter if the book is at a library or on my friend's bookshelf, copyright law is literally the right to copy the thing. So if I make an illegal copy, I'm breaking copyright law. The "ToS" I've "agreed" to is the law of the country I'm in.
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Well like it or not, your footer is just a part of your comments, and so people are invited to respond however they wish when you post it on lemmy. If you don't like people making the same replies, you can simply stop posting the same content in every comment.
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Except for the part where decades' worth of software no longer runs on Windows.
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The full Microsoft XP source code was leaked and is available for anyone on GitHub; not the same, I know, I've just always wondered why a community never formed to fork it
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This would vary by instance. I don't see that lemmy.world specifies the terms for user content, which really should be fixed.
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You could keep the kernel tho while changing the gui
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Thank you arse assassin
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Right, because Linux definitely can't run Windows software. Don't check.
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Stop posting Lunduke stuff. This dude sucks and has a long history of sucking.
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Okay, and if I find the book on the street?
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Because it's not legal and no one's going to develop software for XP. Someone could make and sell security patches for it, but the type of person who still runs XP either doesn't care enough to buy security patches or it's running some hardware that isn't connected to the internet.
There are exactly two games released in the past few years that have XP support, but that was more a flex on the part of the developer then catering to the market. HROT and Zortch are those games if you're curious.
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Surely it's less work to maintain security patches for a few prior versions of windows than it is to indefinitely maintain backwards compatibility
