LufyCZ

Words evolve, and sometimes, they gain new meanings. "Bare metal" is not a scientific terms, and so it can be bent depending on the context.

You can either accept that or not, it doesn't change the fact that that's what it now can mean.

It's just what it means in this specific context.

They're not running directly on the host, with directly meaning directly.

If you go by definition, I agree with you, but the definition is not always the thing to go off of.

Have you read my comment? It's about where the packages and services are installed.

In this case, they're installed in the container, not on the host

Not in this context. Bare metal means all packages and services installed and running directly on the host, not through docker/lxc/vms

In that case I'm sure they're enjoying their 60 cents per month

You could actually run an actual legit miner on the thing, but yeah, you're not getting ahead your electricity usage.

It's unfortunately not as simple as that, the government has to be really careful upsetting essential companies like defense contractors, as the military just straight up needs them (for new projects but also spare parts, fixes,...).

It's not a good relationship.

Edit: I definitely don't disagree with you though, stuff like this just shouldn't happen.

Of course it's a choice, it's a settlement. They could've refused and gone to court, where they probably would've ended up paying a lot more in fines (and legal fees)

Yeah let's go scorched earth on one of the most important military contractors.

"cannot possibly" is your opinion, it's just not a fact. Look at how hard they're trying to ban it, it clearly matters a lot to some ppl for some reason

Not sure how that's a gotcha, sure, a court, has the same weight either way