β² 458 βΌ Where's my fellow crims at? (lemmy.world) submitted 4 days ago by auzy1@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world 151 comments fedilink hide all child comments Absolute loony...
[β] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 53 points 4 days ago (4 children) Would a criminal not simply pirate a paid operating system? permalink fedilink source hideshow 8 child comments replies: [β] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 31 points 4 days ago (3 children) One of the big sticking points stopping me from to switching to Linux is that I don't get to do the incredibly cool crime of stealing from Bill Gates. I considered switching to RHEL, but stealing from IBM isn't quite as cool. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [β] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago Pfft, look at this guy, who wants to buy only genuine IBM PCs and not PC-clones! I bet he pays for his usenet subscription, and sends his extra AOL free trial CDs back so they can be distributed to users who need it. :P permalink fedilink source parent [β] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago Bruh IBM is the primordial evil. They were evil long before the lesser demons came to rule permalink fedilink source parent [β] Gutek8134@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago* You steal the data BG could've gathered if you used his OS And marketshare And (eventually) attention from developers permalink fedilink source parent [β] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 4 days ago Presumably the reason criminals would want to use Linux is that privacy focused distros exist that would make them harder to identify, as well as Linux just generally not broadcasting telemetry to corps that can give it to authorities at the drop of a hat. permalink fedilink source parent [β] 0ops@piefed.zip 2 points 3 days ago I can pirate other things! Don't tell me what to steal permalink fedilink source parent [β] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 point 3 days ago Maybe a dumb one. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 31 points 4 days ago (3 children) One of the big sticking points stopping me from to switching to Linux is that I don't get to do the incredibly cool crime of stealing from Bill Gates. I considered switching to RHEL, but stealing from IBM isn't quite as cool. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [β] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago Pfft, look at this guy, who wants to buy only genuine IBM PCs and not PC-clones! I bet he pays for his usenet subscription, and sends his extra AOL free trial CDs back so they can be distributed to users who need it. :P permalink fedilink source parent [β] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago Bruh IBM is the primordial evil. They were evil long before the lesser demons came to rule permalink fedilink source parent [β] Gutek8134@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago* You steal the data BG could've gathered if you used his OS And marketshare And (eventually) attention from developers permalink fedilink source parent
[β] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago Pfft, look at this guy, who wants to buy only genuine IBM PCs and not PC-clones! I bet he pays for his usenet subscription, and sends his extra AOL free trial CDs back so they can be distributed to users who need it. :P permalink fedilink source parent
[β] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago Bruh IBM is the primordial evil. They were evil long before the lesser demons came to rule permalink fedilink source parent
[β] Gutek8134@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago* You steal the data BG could've gathered if you used his OS And marketshare And (eventually) attention from developers permalink fedilink source parent
[β] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 4 days ago Presumably the reason criminals would want to use Linux is that privacy focused distros exist that would make them harder to identify, as well as Linux just generally not broadcasting telemetry to corps that can give it to authorities at the drop of a hat. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] 0ops@piefed.zip 2 points 3 days ago I can pirate other things! Don't tell me what to steal permalink fedilink source parent
