Why do you say it’s obvious that the English wiki “has nothing”?

Why are you wondering?

Jep, I blame autocorrect.

There is a reason for that. PDFs de facto “standard” is complex and documentation is sparse. PDFs were also designed to be static and uneditable which makes a lot of simple edits more complex to implement than people think.

Genuine question? Yes Minecraft is closed source but the Java version can be decompiled and a lot has been reverse engineered.

There are a few open source Minecraft clones. The most popular is Luanti formerly mine test which is more like an engine. The most popular? Minecraft clone made with it is named VoxeLibre formerly mineclone 2.

It comes from the Latin word ingenium.

In Germany engineer is a regulated term. Computer scientists wanting to call themselves engineer or software engineer need to complete certain higher education programs. A B.Sc. program in CS is enough for example.

That’s exactly what an LLM would say! /s

ZFS is unfortunately not in the upstream Linux Kernel :/

Btrfs is worse in many aspects but I like its flexibility of adding drives with different capacities over time.

Shit, I’ve a house?! Where have you been all my life? /s

How do you cleanly base your local changes against a new upstream version? Merges?

Which is not really open now is it.

Do you live in a world where storage is expensive or rare? Because I more or less forgot the meaning of deleting files.

Also git does support the git protocol as a server if you really need it.

The poor kid

The definition of digital rights management is licensing? That does not sound right to me.

A long time before steam the software sector moved to selling licenses only btw.

This is the case in steam already. There are lots of (mainly Indy) games that will start fine without steam.

GOG actually has a relatively good selection of Linux games.

Yes, that is exactly what I’m saying.

Edit: And with Microsoft it’s even more apparent as there were large proprietary operating systems before Microsoft got big.

Well you are wrong. I am not saying that this situation is fine. I am saying that it is not the individual company that is the main problem but the system that enables them to begin with.

Just dismantling valve is not a long term solution. It’s short sighted. Without them there would be others in their footsteps. One needs to change the system to change that. Give companies opportunities and they will exploit them. I actually agree with the above comment that legislation / regulation is a solution to this problem.

That is why I am pissed off that I am called stupid and bootlicker. That is not a good way to discuss things and especially not a good way to get to an understanding.

And yes I do think that there is a high chance other big tech companies would’ve done worse than valve. Which is not a great endorsement for them to be clear.

Where did I say they are necessary? Where did I say you need a proprietary third party launcher?

What other statements do you want to put in my mouth?