LOL they’re charging their data center customers $1.50/core/month to avoid reboots caused by their own patch system.
I would rather donate that $1.50/core/month to any valuable FOSS software
Sky TV in the UK charge you to skip commercials, when they put the commercials in the programmes.
Literally every cable and streaming company does that. It’s not the same thing.
Sky TV takes ‘The Last of Us’ from HBO, which has no commercials, puts commercials in it and then charges you if you want to skip those commercials.
Yup. Every cable channel has done that for forty+ years.
Thats not unique or new.
Doesn’t kpatch (the Linux equivalent) typically need some kind of subscription too? IIRC RedHat does this with RHEL as it’s not available in the derivative distros
It seems a bit of a silly line to draw to me, but it seems to be some kind of industry convention
Enshitification Comes.
Can’t wait until the Windows OS starts demanding you have a credit card on file in order to function.
Oh that is in the pipeline.
Assisted a man with new iPhone yesterday. Can’t download free apps or anything from the appstore without a working card on file.
Disgusting.
Just makes Linux look even better.
Every single thing MS changes anymore does this.
This is an ad for a third party patching service.
This is a terribly written article, full of needlessly convoluted sentences and long paragraphs that make it hard to read.
For all the shark jumping these corporations do, it still shocks me how many people just keep paying. Even other corporations, in this case.
