J. K. Rowling is a transphobe and a bigot.

Trying to monetize the piracy of your users. That’s a bold business strategy.

Look, I know a lot of people could be using the sharing feature to share material that is in the public domain or that they own the copyright to, but let’s be honest: most of that sharing would be considered an “unlicensed public performance” by the MAFIAA.

It sucks for FOSS projects, but you have to imagine their rules from the perspective of someone who is actively trying to bend the rules to avoid giving Valve their cut. If they make an exception for FOSS projects, then every indie developer will claim to be “Shareware” and solicit donations off-platform.

Even Epic Games tried this and ended up in a lawsuit with Apple.

There was a time when nurses and doctors said “flid” and “spastic” too.

Using a “cute” abbreviation of a technical term is, at the very least, condescending and at worst, a term that very quickly becomes used to bully people with specific outward appearances caused by medical conditions.

I hate this abbreviation of “premature baby” to “preemy.” To me it’s a slur, just like “flid,” “spastic,” or “mong.” Stop using it.

J. K. Rowling is a fascist.

Dumbest take of 2025, I’m calling it early.

I don’t think anyone’s arguing that Red Hat isn’t in the right, legally, to do what they did (anymore).

I am. It’s there in the GPL text in black and white. Red Hat does not have any right to place restrictions on the distribution of derivative works that they do not own the original copyright for. Threatening to terminate a service agreement is a restriction.

All of the projects that own FOSS code that Red Hat uses in RHEL could legitimately revoke Red Hat’s license to use that software on the grounds that they have violated the licensing terms required by the GPL.