Nope it's me that doesn't care more about this than you!
The world is such a sad place to live. This comes from USA, just think about all the third world countries, it's not any better but worse sadly.
Wow that article was a ride. I feel so happy to not have used windows in the past 5 or so years.
Unless you could link a credible source it's hard to accept this as anything more than a mere opinion
There's very less evidence to support that. I can only recall one incident where a blanket infected with small pox was handed out to a tribe and the officer who did that was later severely reprimanded.
But anyhow, I am not trying to downplay the ill intent of European settlers, I will just quote this here "history is written by victors". The blanket incident is all I recall about deliberate disease spreading. who really knows? How many hundreds of such incidents went unreported?
To be fair more people died from the diseases brought by the settlers.
Plot twist: you elder brother has been the lead KDE propagandist all along.
When you think about it, it really did change the world for almost a century. It lead to ww1 which sowed the seeds for ww2 and when that came to end, communism had been strengthened enough by stalin capatalizing under the pretence of a nazi free Europe.
Unpopular opinion: it's more of a coping mechanism for the third world countries.
Sure UK and much of Europe had big and terrible colonies but there were still many like sweden and norway which did not. Thus the assertion that developed countries all have built upon exploitation is not entirely true
Assertion 2: countries such as china have shown that economic development is possible when you have a terrible history of war, destruction or otherwise poor economic background. Sure personal freedom is a joke in China but to say it isn't an economic giant is false. Poland after ww2 is another example, much of their intellects were killed and warsaw was everything but ruins at the end of 1945
Assertion 3: geography, the age groups of the people and culture all affect the development of a nation much more than their history from 80 years ago.
- from someone who has keen interest in history and lives in a third world country and seen corruption, bribery and every form of idiotic economic decision that a government can make to not let the country be a better place.
I have read this a hundred times and it's still as beautiful as the day I first read it.
I was actually refering to the headline in the picture but yeah this is an interesting piece of information too, I know the post's title was sarcastic but didn't know it was such a thoughtful joke haha
I have always been a history enthusiast. Unfortunately, I don't know much about history in the context of computers. I am therefore interested in learning more about significant events and people like Richard stallman and all the related events such as Windows refund day. I am interested to read and explore the timeline, I suppose a book would be ideal but any good resource such as a youtube series would be great too.
Update: I am happy to recieve such wide variety of resources to explore, I hope this post might help someone who is interested in FOSS history in the future too.
I am a big history enthusiast and would greatly love to read more about history and big events in the world of linux or FOSS in general. Here's one example: on Feb 15, 1999, the windows refund day event happened, I am interested to read more about such events in detail. Is there a decent book or resource that covers all this in detail?