Google or Microsoft employees wouldn’t be able to contribute, even if they’re not working with any weapons manufacturer during their entire career there.

The idea is great in theory but isn’t in feasible in rl.

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No, Beeper apparently paid the dev to use the code.

I had Fedora with the surface-linux kernel running for a while and at some point an update broke everything, including the touch pad.

The Surface isn’t a great Linux device, unfortunately.