Monopolies are usually deemed illegal by what they do with that position and not how they got there. It’s things like leveraging your monopoly to gain undue advantage preventing competition to arise in the first place.

One should also consider if services and goods provided by a „natural” monopoly (like over a limited resource) wouldn’t be better handled by either a state monopoly or a regulated industry consortium.

I’m happy that Gabe Newell won a lottery and was awarded billions of dollars along with it, good on him since that was his second lottery win after being an OG Microsoft employee with stock options. Does it mean he has to be awarded billions of dollars forever in perpetuity? Maybe more of the 30% cut should go to the people that actually make games today?

Do you distrust Blur Busters too? They also claim it’s the second coming of Jesus.

It’s a travesty it’s a solely X11 thing and that it wasn’t adopted by other operating systems. Back in the day when I was doing a back office job one of the main apps ran on Solaris via what looked like some weird X11 to Windows forwarding app. Clipboard was shared between host and remote app so it was very obvious to see how much of a productivity gain middle-click paste was. Regretfully that’s the only app they managed to retire since I left. Mainframe one is still going strong.

Neat, videogame license holders can now run their games on hardware they don’t own either. Must be great for economic growth.

If the code used to train LLM was released with copyleft license then there’s only way to interpret how the output should be licensed. There’s nothing absolutist about it, just how GPL and such were intended to work. If you don’t like it, don’t use it to train models.

Does that make it legal? Cool.