No, they aren't. You can switch to their Universe patches anytime, at your own risk. If you want Canonical to mitigate that risk for you, you pay. Simple, really.
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The Post? Really? Half of that article is an ad for the Post itself!
With some of my smaller clients, the CIO is the same as the CTO and the same as the IT Director. There, IT is developers, too.
Enterprise will cause a boom in hiring VBA devs to migrate legacy apps to other programming languages, then hear Microsoft will extend support for a few more years, then fire all those VBA devs again. If Microsoft had some wits, they'd create easy tools to migrate VBA to C#.
Wouldn't it face the exact same security issues as VBA, with drive-by installs of obfuscated malware and executions of arbitrary code?
That indeed is annoying.
So they say. Remember they also promised not to track users, keep trackers away, and keep your browsing experience ad-free. They came back from that within a year.
Vivaldi has no choice. They have built their browser on Blink, which is made by Google. Google will force them to comply. Their way out would be to go back to the Opera web browser, which they gave up on over a decade ago.
The effect those people will have on profit margins probably are negligible, given the large amount of people using Google-created web browsers already.
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Holy cow it's fast!
Thank you! As I'm learning more about my own autism, I'm quite willing to share experiences.