Ernie Smith
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Editor of Tedium, an offbeat newsletter that’s been rocking since 2015. I complain on the internet a lot, and I accidentally made a search engine. Support what I do […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ writing.exchange/@ernie, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
 for $75 million in free services to affected customers. The government should mandate, as part of the settlement, that they have to port Creative Cloud to Linux.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q4ckmo6ua3l6expdpoyzinc5/bafkreigckogjkngrwl26o3socebrvpkaefefgg7qq2ob34fqe274s6fwoe)
![KARL KOCH: Geffen never told us [they had negotiated a deal with Microsoft that would have the “Buddy Holly” video included with Windows 95] and nobody in the band even had a computer at that so we had no idea how big a deal that was.
PAT WILSON: I was furious because at the time I was like, ‘How are they allowed to do this without our permission?’ Turns out it was one of the greatest things that could have happened to us. Can you imagine that happening today? It’s like, there’s one video on You Tube, and it’s your video.
BRIAN BELL: It was literally like living inside the eye of the hurricane. People were telling me, ‘You don’t know how big this is, you’re on Windows 95.’ I didn’t have a computer, I didn’t know what that meant, so I never really got a grasp of how big we were becoming.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q4ckmo6ua3l6expdpoyzinc5/bafkreif2zcpcgata4tjsfazvw56uos7v4efvwy57dvg3qsqp63kxbqxy2a)
