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MS couldn't access that content without scraping the page itself, though, which of course belongs to Reddit. From a legal standpoint, it's like a paywall.

In essence, it means that you reserve the right to also use the content for your own purposes, without Reddit having any recourse to preventing you from doing that.

Sort of, but not really. From the Reddit ToS (emphasis mine). Basically, you own your content but allow Reddit to use it however they want without crediting you. Only a corporate lawyer would call that arrangement "ownership", but I digress...

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If you work for a larger company, they will likely want you to keep using what they already have, not because Linux can't do the job but because it's a PITA to maintain different devices.

Meh, I'm going to hold out for a subscription-based AI-enabled mousepad.

What if I take a screenshot and make an NFT out of it?

Basically, yeah. The vast majority of spambots are simple and lazy.

OK, sure, but that's like saying it's pointless to use a secure password online because the NSA could hack you if they wanted to.

I'm not watching some rando groyper's clickbait. What is the reason?

Gonna have to disagree hard with this, based on extensive first-hand experience (web dev). I've added CAPTCHA to dozens (hundreds?) of web forms, and it all but eliminates spam.

No aircraft cabin crew have ever put out a call asking if there are any Linux sysadmin onboard with a copy of GParted Live v1.5.0 for 32bit ARM devices .

The grizzled greybeard spoke up, brandishing his weathered USB drive above his head like a sword. "I can do it. I'm a sysadmin."

"Oh, thank God!" the flight attendant sighed. "It says something about booting, I'm not sure. Nobody here knows Linux."

The greaybeard squeezed himself out of his seat and stood in the aisle. "I’d just like to interject for a moment." he interrupted with a raised finger and a self-satisfied expression. "What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/LInux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX."

He shifted his bulk to block one of the other passengers, who was screaming behind him that nobody cares. The pilot was now standing behind the flight attendant, begging the sysadmin to come up to the cockpit, but the greybeard was undeterred. "Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates t—"

The sysadmin never finished his sentence; the airplane smashed into the ground and all aboard were killed instantly. The impact somehow caused the GNU/Linux device to reboot correctly before it too was smashed to pieces a fraction of a second later.

Thanks, Buster. It's reassuring to hear that.