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First RCS now this, today has been wild

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

will just pull out of the market, or threaten to pull out.

That would be wonderful. They would no longer be able to enforce their patents in countries they don't trade in; GNU/Linux users worldwide will have (patent infringing) access to the Australian/NZ version of whatever

It would suck for the games I play that need windows, but it would also give more incentive to those to port them to Linux