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All these corporations looking to kill off their own relevance. They all in the same death cult or something?
Never forget, in a capitalist system, every firm will always eventually try to get as many people as possible, to pay as much as possible, for as little as possible.
Enshitification
Yeah, capitalism it seems like.
I guess asking for sustainable business practices is too much to ask for from the system. "Sufficient" money is never good enough. Gotta try to get all the money, even if it means burning down everything one holds dear.
Hell, the system is literally willing to burn down the whole world in pursuit of more. The more you think about it, the more senseless it all becomes.
It's called enshittification - Cory Doctorow invented the term.
IBM uses mostly Windows in house, so they are not interested in desktop Linux and apparently then nobody else would be either.