Disney has been using Steamboat Willy in the beginning credits of their shows/movies for a while now. They are attempting to make it a Trademark (since the copyright wouldn’t be extended further). Since Trademarks must be defended, Disney will likely start suing anyone using Steamboat Willy on grounds of Trademark violation.

That seems entirely reasonable. Thank for the info. I was just curious is all.

Any plans on timing of upgrading to 0.19.x?

I’m just curious.

Damn, that sucks

The current head of the FTC is bringing the first anti-trust case in many years. She’s launched cases against Google, and Amazon so far, and is investigating Facebook. That gives me some hope.

🏴‍☠️

This is not a good thing.

Another article: https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/warner-bros-discovery-paramount-global-talks-merge-axios-2023-12-20/

Commodore 64 gang rise up!

Star Trek: The Computer Game (released 1983)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p6qQEDp0Ug

Somehow I’ve never considered a Trek podcast (and I listen to a lot of podcasts). I’ll have to check these out!

Modern software development:

Exactly. Free Market ≠ Capitalism

https://doctorow.medium.com/capitalists-hate-capitalism-6406089e2118

eff.org too