Name just fifty (50).
Don't worry about it, the angry edit was meant to be humorous- in general I agree that it's a mistake to let downvotes upset you.
(And because I'm the admin of my own instance, the votes are made visible through the UI. So if I wanted to be a vindictive weirdo about it, I could... π)
I'm a good enough software engineer that this isn't true. I bet I get paid a lot more than you. π
(The above statement is not a truthful statement.)
"In case this is a real question?"
Anyway, I just read through the settlement and I didn't see any explicit transfer of ownership of he code in there. I'm not a lawyer though, there are some things in there I may not understand the implications of.
On my instance, I follow most of the biggest communities with a "seed account" to fill out the "all" feed. This seems to work pretty well.
There are so many hot Easter bunny pics, furiends
There is already nobody watching. That's probably why they did this to begin with.
It definitely has many compromises and I wouldn't use it for hosting something in production or something like that. (Is that something people do?) It is situationally very useful though, usually for things I used to spin up a VM for. I'm happy to have it available as a tool when I need to use Windows.
I hope Nintendo is able to make emulation illegal once and for all and end all this. People really shouldn't be allowed to run whatever software they want, they should only be allowed to run Microsoft Windows and the fun games they include on the bonus disc