I am very tempted by a Jolla phone. Years ago I had a Nokia N9, and apparently they’ve done a good job of keeping the platform alive. It does have a yearly subscription for the OS which is a bit strange, but if it means my phone would last 10 years not 5 then I can get behind that

I love when I get halfway through an old usenet thread before I realise the date the messages were posted

This reminds me of people who used Computer Modern to make it look like they had written their paper using LaTeX to get better marks. It usually worked

Macintosh Pus actually. At least I hope it’s a Plus. If they gutted a 128k or 512k that would be sad.

If you are a big company there are often ESCROW agreements for things like this. I have encountered the “data dumps” from time to time and whilst it’s “better” it’s not ideal. Half finished documentarian, virtual machines of mis-configured OS installs… it’s almost as if it was just a straight copy of the development environment as it was just as they made the final version of the software…

But it’s better than nothing.

Main issue I can see with this forcing open source would be libraries and frameworks licensed from others who would likely still be in business and wouldn’t agree to those parts becoming open sourced. See also WinAMP https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/16/opensourcing_of_winamp_goes_badly/

Looks good and a good price but what an awful website - pop ups, scrolling text, unstoppable videos… nobody wants that.

Except this logo is based on the splash screen used in Mac OS 7.5.1 which was released in 1995, and Clippy came with Word 97

Ah hah hah

I’m selling these fine leather jackets…

I would have suggested Farnell but apparently they got bought out by an American company in 2016.

In the UK we have “JRC Global Buffet” which is almost exactly what you describe. It’s…not great. I went because, like you, some friends were particularly enamoured with the place for some reason.

I wasn’t a fan.

And generated a fuck tonne of UV, so….don’t look at it with your remaining eye.

Garmin watches come close?