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I would say you're actually witnessing the very real phenomenon of language-drift. Languages evolve for a billion reasons, but there's no right or wrong state of language.

That's why we distinguish between language, dialect, idiolect, sociolect. Each bearer of language is also a producer of language. Their version is just theirs, in whatever many ways that makes that version unique.

(Check linguistics to better understand this process of language-drifting )

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Documentary.

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist."
Source: https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/H%C3%A9lder_C%C3%A2mara

Hélder Pessoa Câmara (7 February 1909 – 27 August 1999) was a Brazilian Catholic archbishop. A self-identified socialist, he was the Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, serving from 1964 to 1985, during the military dictatorship in Brazil.

You make a good point worth considering. For all non-USians/non-Chinese out there, all those social media giants are foreign corporations belonging to foreign powers.

The spying part of it is bad for the spying, not for who's doing it.

Guy Debord captures the problem best in his The Society of the Spectacle (1967).

In theory, you could probably go against it. Problem is that the Spectacle (capitalist ideology visually manifested) is tautological and self-reinforcing. Even to critique it you have to make the critique a spectacle, which immediately undermines that very same critique (think of any YouTube video critiquing YouTube).

So no, it's no the same. The odds are insanely stacked up in favor of keeping the structure in place—unlike breaking away from said belief in the divinity of kings.

You're not wrong. Why would you? Either works or not. You said it yourself, it's work-related. The rest you could probably work around them if sufficiently motivated.

Sorry if I mistake your intention. If that's the case, it's just me making a wrong guess.

You're probably misreading this.

I authored THE NAME. If you prefer, I'm the name-giver, the author in this sense.

Linus is the namer and the creator of that kernel.

As creator he is by right allowed to name his creation whatever he likes. Just like me, as the cat 'entity creator as a pet' am allowed to name it whatever I like.

No outsiders input required. You get now what I mean by author?

Whatever your reply may be, let me thank you already for engaging. It's nice to be pressured to explain something in simpler, more accessible terms.

That's what happens when you allow bureaucrats to rule. It happens in every field, in every industry. It sucks how quickly the rules become seriously caricature-like and out of touch. Cf. Kafka's The Trial.

Thanks for the necessary XKCD. First time reading that one.

Well, to be honest, I won't be THAT guy, nor am I crazy to bring back the rotary disk.

Thanks!

And no, I'm not serious. Just reminding that technology, like everything else, changes.

But I loved that project! Made me smile thinking how creative people are.

Maybe you'll like it more under this new guise: I named my cat Goofyball. But since Linnaeus named the species Felis catus, you remind me that my cat's name should ackchyually be Felis catus/Goofyball. To which I reply, very appropriately, 'it's MY cat'. So Goofyball it is.

Understand now the authority argument? Authority in the sense of authorial, having an author.

Not really that fancy. It's just a marketing euphemism. The giving of a cool name to something very mundane.

You're right, it's just a clouded way of saying 'someone else's computer '.