WTF, my HP laptop’s brightness keys don’t even work.
100k is peanuts for these xompanies. Welcome all the help FOSS can get, but that is literally nothing to these companies. A license for atlassian is more expensive by a magnitude.
It feels like a nice round tax number.
It reminds me of how US companies get a tax credit of up to $200 for office bonding i.e. pizza parties. That’s literally the reason they’re so common… It’s a tax write-off…
HP? That’s surprising, my impression of HP for the last decade or two is that of complete hatred of their customers.
The devil that backup something against it’s core value… wondering what’s that hide…
More likely just “our customers are going for other vendors for better support, we need to do something quickly”
Textbook example of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
How exactly are they going to proprietarily extend Linux in a way where everyone will need their proprietary extensions so much that people abandon other Linux flavors without them…?
This is the kind of harassment I like. Harass these huge businesses to act right and fund stuff they rely on.