Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

So many groups counting on me to give today! I'm sure these aren't just mass mailings, but actual personal pleas! [sic]

Comfort is defined in both mental and physical terms.

Physical is food, clothing, and shelter.

Mental is knowing you're prepared for the future as well as the ability to be average in the present. The latter sets the terms for what is known as "disposable income" or in snobbish terms, "unnecessary spending".

In the simplest, economics is about the ability of the average person to live comfortably.

At the least, a person should be able to provide comfort for their family at the same level as their parents with the same amount of effort. If this exists, the economy is stable. If it takes less effort, the economy is growing. If it takes more effort, the economy is declining.

Again, this is for the average, so a growing economy for 1% with a declining economy for 99% should be considered a decline.

IBM said that they'd open source OS/2 when all parties (read Microsoft) holding key elements of the OS agreed. Even though OS/2 is largely irrelevant today (due to its 32 bit nature), Microsoft still won't let it be open source.
In a fair fight, Windows is dead today, and OS/2 is still being developed. (Probably not FOSS; IBM was no saint.)

Hard to believe it's been 25 years since OS/2 Warp was released. Even harder to believe it's been almost 10 years since it was my daily driver.
It was reported in the newsgroups to be the best OS you ever used, or the worst OS you ever used. (The latter claim might be just attributed to paid Microsoft plants in the newsgroups.)
IBM was way to dysfunctional to fight the Microsoft monopoly. The measure of how much Microsoft support open source still lies in how open source OS/2 remains.

Putting tracking tools in place before cracking down on dissent...

Totalitarian businesses probably prefer to hire religious people, because they're already trained to suspend reason and follow orders.