You’d think, wouldn’t you? But there are so many promotions and discounts and bundles going on that it’s never a linear relationship. So no one would be able to easily tell the numbers were diverging for at least a few quarters. And as long as they are both headed up, no one actually cares anyway. But if you wanted to juice the growth rate or slow the churn rate just a bit to look better or hit some target that you were just shy of, it’d be easy enough to add a “bug” to forget to bill some certain percentage of trial accounts.

Or maybe they just suck at the coding that handles trial accounts. As rapidly as this stuff was rolled out, and as late as the decisions about actual promotions probably get made, I’d be surprised if it wasn’t buggy.

Yeah, there is no way to back out consumers vs. revenue at basically any big company. They all report "ARPU" or average revenue per user, because there is always a spectrum of pricing, almost never a single price. Between bundle pricing with partners, promo pricing offered for new customers, customers on old plans that haven't upgraded or updates, depending on the type of service and how they manage it there can be hundreds of price points in play for any given customer

That isn't to say there's no way to audit for this kind of situation, they could definitely report out what every single customer is paying and just find the ones that = zero

You realize government services that support that home cost money, right? You act like if you own your home that your living there doesn’t impose any costs on your neighbors.

Good, I wonder how much money they’ve wasted over the years paying for RHEL.

They weren’t using RHEL. The title would be more accurate if it said “RHEL-based Linux”. They used their own build called Scientific Linux for a long time, then switch to CentOS. Then Oracle started aggressively poaching RedHat’s customers with Oracle Linux, which forced RedHat to start locking things down. One side-effect is that the life of CentOS 8 was dramatically shortened, and then RedHat killed the stable released versions of CentOS (9, 10, etc.). CentOS is now a rolling release “Stream” distribution, which nobody actually wants to use in production.

All this drama alienated many people who built their careers on RHEL-based systems, and created (either actual or perceived) instability in the RHEL ecosystem. And at the same time they started deprecating older hardware, some would say far too early. This is the “straw that broke the camel’s back”, as they said in the CERN presentation.

Eh? Didn't they come up with CentOS initially to not have to pay for RHEL?

I was ready irritated by the title but then again, phoronix has been a joke site for at least a few years.

The point is that the enforcement agencies make the assumption that GPS data is always correct. But there are any number of issues that can cause problems with it. People making decisions about how to enforce house arrest or design autonomous farm equipment need to take GPS flakiness into account. Differences in scale are not the point.

It’s the same category of error, is the point he was making. Relax a bit.

Really large companies have lots of domains even if they aren’t “hoarding” them. But even a few dozen domains is enough to need automation.

You have swallowed some dangerous, racist propaganda if you believe this. “Remigration” is a code word for forcible ethnic cleansing.

Yes, that is literally what it is.

He calls for removal of people based on their ethnicity. What would you call that?

Ethnicity or citizenship?

The word he uses is a pejorative for the Romani, an ethnicity.

As I've said before, I strongly disagree, but what I read is that he calls for the removal of those behaving in a way that (in his opinion) make the city of Copenhagen less safe, or at least that change the perceived security of the people living there.

Gypsies create issues almost everywhere in Europe, but it's not based on ethnicity, most of the ethnic Roma are fully integrated, some of them are not, in Italy many Sinte families are linked to mob and criminality in general.

Do they deserve special treatment because of their ethnicity?

And what if they are not regular citizens?

It's an open problem, DHH's solutions it's absolutely not my solution, but there's a still a difference between what he said and calling for ethnic cleansing.

No one will reply to you because it requires thinking through this problem with the same nuance they accuse DHH of not appreciating. I'm right there with you.

What about "ignoring him, not knowing him, just using his product" is defending? Are you using Nestle products? Ah you do? You must be all for stealing people's water well and selling them bottled water from it.

"You use a computer? and a phone? Clearly you have no problem with forced child labor mining raw materials to make electronics and batteries!" /s