• Chozo@fedia.io
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    6 days ago

    A huge chunk of that Linux development was paid for by exploiting child gambling.

    Just because one does a few good things with their money, doesn’t justify how they got it.

    • adr1an@programming.dev
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      2 days ago

      Child gambling? You mean like Android videogames and Google not caring about it for a while until some EU law??

      I didn’t knew that involved Valve too…

    • msage@programming.dev
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      6 days ago

      There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.

      Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

      We can nitpick specific examples for everything you want, and we will be correct, but that detracts from the point that Gabe has helped to build things that took decades of slowly getting anywhere.

      I wish we didn’t need it, but we do.

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      6 days ago

      Valve was making bank before lootcrates, and lootcrates have been available to kids since trading card games.