The fallout forced CEO Martin Winterkorn to resign, although he denied wrongdoing. U.S. authorities issued an arrest warrant for Winterkorn in 2018, but Germany does not extradite its nationals. His trial in Germany was paused in 2021 due to health issues, but he remains a key figure under investigation.

read it there

or just leave the phone at home

most important is to not give them any more free content

A plane that looks a bit like a car.

“Emailing large numbers of employees about any topic not related to work is not appropriate. We have an established forum for employees who have opted in to political issues,” says Microsoft spokesperson Frank Shaw in a statement to The Verge. “Over the past couple of days, a number of politically focused emails have been sent to tens of thousands of employees across the company and we have taken measures to try and reduce those emails to those that have not opted in.”

Work email is a tool provided by the company to be used for work topics. Some employees are apparently using this tool to send unrelated emails to people who didn’t sign up for it, but still have to deal with it somehow because they are probably required to check their email.

The company trying to reduce this seems reasonable to me, I’m surprised that so many people seem to take offense at it.

How does Fedora replace Android for you? Have you not been using a desktop OS before?

more only if less is not available

It doesn’t even need to be for free. Public institutions could still buy software under the condition that it is open sourced immediately, so they don’t become dependent on the vendor.

I think it’s an attempt to keep people on their platform who need easy access to a unix-like shell. Linux has it and so does mac os. Windows didn’t until they introduced wsl.

looks like he’s trying to make plane noises

The situation is different this time though: Europe is being threatened from one side and losing support from another. I read this as an attempt to take more responsibility.

“not particularly support” is not the same as “oppose”

Valeskog said Stockholm had no intention of complying. “Of course, we’ll not sign it, we won’t return it, we’ll do nothing about it,” he said.

He doesn’t rename anything, he sets names for his followers to use

Apparently the purpose of the fork was to send copies of the messages somewhere else for archiving.

at least worrying about the economy would be an improvement to just worrying about their personal freedom