Yes, buying. I lived in Cedar City Utah and first encountered Linux in a RedHat 2.0 beige box at a gaming store in Red Cliffs Mall in St George. Probably in 1994 or 5. Came with a couple of manuals, a boot floppy, and a CD. Had the 0.95 kernel. Getting dial-up configured was interesting since the ISP only knew about Trumpet Winsock... Then leaving it running for a few hours in the evening to update everything.

Within a week I was at the local BN buying O'Reilly books.

of a Tom Clancy novel?

If they sell fewer they need to charge more per item to make the same amount of money overall.

Itâ(TM)s also blown the tracker I attached to my cheating ex-girlfriendâ(TM)s bicycle before I headed over to the range to buy a box of 9mm.

December 1 through February 28.

We never stopped going in to the office.

for years. Apple, Microsoft, Google, all of them Have Issues. Smaller, more nimble, companies may be more easily contacted, but it often takes knowing someone who can bypass the various gatekeepers.

And not just in software. Several years ago I had a highly repeatable weird glitch while closing the top of my German convertible. Couldn't seem to get it fixed. Complained to Warren Brown (RIP) at the Washington Post during an online chat, and two days later I got a call from a regional engineering guy at the car company, and was in that weekend getting a switch replaced.

Put Hyper-V on its servers OSes

Or perhaps Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems.

Windows gets upset if you mix codepages. I suspect Linux and Mac do, too. Sure, mixing US/GB codepages shouldn't cause much trouble. But mixing Hebrew and US causes all sorts of fun, since the text moves in different directions. And Chinese can move vertically in addition to horizontally. If you don't start each snippet of text with the byte order mark things can get weird.

with running into police cars and fire trucks that are parked by the side of the road with their lights flashing. Oops.

at Netflix and thought "Oh! That sounds awesome!

Once Iran gets a nuclear weapon Israel probably goes into a launch on warning posture. The first time they see a Iranian or Hezbollah rocket heading in they throw everything they've got at Iran. Goodbye Tehran, Qom, Tabriz, and other Iranian cities.