The answer would be predictably contradictory. It's turtles all the way down.

Many programmers in the 1970s were driven by ideals like making computing accessible to all (which is just another way of saying equity), a common thread among a large subset of programmers ever since. It has just never been a formal part of any curriculum in the past.

The problem isn't that every seat is a different price. The problem is that they're charging for some services that used to be free, and are eliminating other services entirely, in a race to the bottom with no end in sight. Pretty soon they'll find a way to legally charge for bathroom use, and apologists will find a way to defend it.

Betterment of society is a vague benchmark, open to interpretation. If somebody enjoys what they do and it doesn't harm others, why do you care?

You'd figure journalists and other high-profile individuals at risk of being targeted by state-sponsored bad actors would have switched to a land line by now.

Or until enough employees burn out to make it worth it.

Because Americans don't like recycling, and will even pay more for a product if it means they don't have to recycle. Just watch this WD initiative fail when consumers start to boycott them, stupidly thinking that WD is somehow "woke."

No, just over your face, so the AI can't read your emotions.

Interesting how companies are incompetent enough to allow their data to be stolen, but just competent enough to know exactly which records were accessed. If the breach was performed well, forensics will show far fewer records leaked than actually were.

"It wasn't the company's fault, it was the fault of the *employee* who was hired by the *other employee*."

Sure, they may pay your penalties, but will they do hard time for you?

Well, you don't *have* to pay; the government will gladly let you choose incarceration instead.

Once you sign the return, you are ultimately responsible for what's on it. Attempting to pawn off problems on your preparer, even a CPA, will not absolve you of ultimate responsibility for what you filed (or the filed on your behalf).

The Crowdstrike problem wasn't caused by vendor lock-in. It was caused by a Crowdstrike bug. Replace Crowdstrike with any other security measure on any other OS and you still have the same potential problem, even if they updates were *not* auto-applied, because bugs can and do slip through.

This is not to excuse Crowdstrike; they screwed up. Just pointing out that the problem is not exclusive to them, or to proprietary software, or to auto-updates.

That gives the Belarusian malware on your phone 14 seconds to transmit your personal info to Russia.