A major partner told John Riccitiello personally that it will not pay the Runtime Fee – and in the strongest possible terms.

  • El Barto@lemmy.world
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    Corps devoting their resources to lobby against FOSS.

    That has been a decades long battle. They’ll never win the war.

    Microsoft was 100% against Linux 15 years ago. Now there is a Linux subsystem sitting next to the core of the OS.

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      1 year ago

      And honestly it seems like FOSS solutions are way more usable these days. In the old days it was a huge hit in either features or UI.

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      Yes, they’ve taken an “if you can’t beat them, join them” approach to FOSS for a while now.