Because digital connections in third parties aren't assets; they endow another party with tremendous power over people (e.g. MElon getting to decide who can and cannot reach people or what messages to "dim down")
Narrowing down to desktops and laptops, and judging by Web requests that go through Clownflare, many people there use GNU/Linux or Google's 'bastardised' version of it (with spyware preloaded)
From what we can gather, the tram ticketing system does not use Windows; we never saw it crashing or rebooting (or showing some Windows logo) in decades, so we assume it runs some kind of Linux
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eet
2009-07-24 09:58:42
The high-points of this IRC-log is some squirming on their behalf in response to Lefty's questions and their calling Linus Torvalds 'naive'.
Well, they should know, there no-one as worldly-wise as a bunch of teenage boys! ;-)