Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast

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  • Per Wikipedia:

    A company is a legal entity representing an association of legal persons with a shared objective, such as generating profit or benefiting society.

    “Company” is a vague almost meaningless term, like “animal.”

    The Linux Foundation is a 501©6 non-profit corporation. Americans are more likely to be familiar with 501©3, which covers charity organizations, such as the American Red Cross and St. Judes Children’s Research Hospital. 501©6 covers trade associations, like the American Medical Association, the American Bar Association, the National Association of Realtors and the US Chamber of Commerce.

    As a trade association, the Linux Foundation is not itself a for-profit business, but they have a lot to do with for-profit businesses. Maintaining the world’s most popular kernel is chief among them.




  • You kinda don’t.

    Windows is American, via Microsoft. MacOS is American, via Apple. Android and ChromeOS are American, via Google. BSD is American, via UC Berkley. Linux is at least partially American, via the Linux Foundation.

    Western Europe has essentially nothing to show for itself in terms of processor architecture, instruction sets and operating systems. Globally, that’s pretty much all been done by the Americans and the British. They get to claim ARM.

    Congratulations on going open source though, we’ll see if you stick with it longer than the krauts did.














  • Because that kit would cost around what a new Civic would cost, and you’re going to get a 16 year old car made worse.

    EV components don’t really swap into the spots that ICE components do. An engine is relatively large, a motor is relatively small. A gas tank is relatively small, a battery is relatively large. Most ICEs designed from the ground up use a “skateboard”-like chassis with the battery taking up basically all the volume below the floor. The motor can be tucked away somewhere, and then the body built on top. You don’t need the volume in the nose for the engine so you get a frunk. a 15 year old ICE car didn’t portion out the room for the batteries, so you’ve got some of the area under the trunk occupied by the gas tank. That’s about the volume that the batteries in a golf cart take up.

    Anyone who’s capable of designing and manufacturing that kit might as well go into production of new cars.