So for Android, the story is that Google really wanted to be able to keep the userland private whenever that fit their corporate agenda. Granted, they did take the time to modernize things and slim things down for mobile devices.

As to the containerization thing: I don’t completely buy the bloat argument when it comes from the same kinds of people that think it’s a good idea to split applications into a million microservices, each running in their own container. What I do buy is managers worrying whether they need to release their super-secret proprietary code because they included a GPL’d component. Business distros are afraid include e.g. Ghostscript these days because Google T&C say they don’t want any AGPL software running in their cloud. I also know that engineers on regular distros have spent time trimming dependencies down to match Alpine, so you can get regular distros almost as small as Alpine images.

Oh, not just Russians, anyone with “Russian blood”. This is probably the clearest case of racism I’ve seen on this site.

It used to be true. Stallman didn’t anticipate the GPL hate coming from big corporates like cloud providers. Literally the major reason why Alpine and Android are the way they are.

So is this a response to Vaultwarden becoming more popular?

(As an aside: One of the reasons I trusted a semi-proprietary hosted app like Bitwarden at all was that Vaultwarden exists, theoretically allowing me to move there if necessary.)

In 2010, Kraft bought Cadbury. Kraft then split up into Kraft (roughly: cheese for the US) and Mondelez (roughly: sweets for RoW), with Mondelez taking along with it Cadbury.

In order to not fully dox myself, I’ll just say the following: I came after Nils and left before Melissa did. Around early 2021, I found myself suddenly thrown in Ivo/April calls and feeling tremendously unhappy, not just because Pandemic Year II sucked in general and team dynamic went to shit but also because these marketing folks were discussing not-so-grand grand ideas and blatant GDPR violations while sending literal hundreds of inexplicable 👏 emojis into the chat window of every call.

That’s a rather uncaritative interpretation of my words. I left of my own accord.

Unfortunately, I fell out of the corpo brainwash cycle a bit before that.

Hm… Reading the names of Ivo and Spencer triggered something in me. There are good people there too. These two are pretty obnoxious. Granted, the mock-German is ill-fitting for the two though, with one of them being an American, the other a Bulgarian(?) living in Germany.

Gripes. Used to be an employee there.

Hello, we is sé SUSE from sé beschauliche little town of Nurenburg (plz don’t say asserwise! we are a world concern but we is tru 2 our /root) and we creating one more me-2 1-off project. Now, only a decay-de after sé Oohbantoo we has a type faish to. Now we is off to ripping of sé Red Head OS agains, because we is effraid to compete wizz Microsoft. After awll wot if sey log us out of Ashure? We go hart after the IBM. Plz accepts our Right to Win in sé offer-support-for-forenn-OS space, we is only here to help you get rit of log-in effects.🚀

Or did they change that?

No