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Re:San Francisco Spent a Decade Being Rich, Important, and H... by allovernow on Sunday December 22, 2019 @12:43AM (#21855445)
That's exactly what I'm talking about. You can cherry pick good and bad actors in any industry. This ignores all of the dedication poured into open source and support in frequently thankless roles - have you ever noticed how dry and professional OSS support forums like github and stackoverflow tend to be? To the point where people feel the environment is offensive (though I disagree). All of the positive contributions to control systems that link the globe and drive our factories and machines. Brilliant, completely free GPU based mathematics libraries in multiple languages - do you have any idea how far these technologies are driving the future? Tech is the foundation of the future. Maybe not now but it is inevitable, if we don't destroy ourselves, the live of the average person will undoubtedly become more and more computerized.

Also, what technology do you think is enabling clean tech? We simulate everything on the back of a subset of the tech industry.

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Re:San Francisco Spent a Decade Being Rich, Important, and H... by Gibbon1 on Sunday December 22, 2019 @02:19AM (#21855764)
> do you have any idea how far these technologies are driving the future?

I think unlike you I know the past. I can see both it and the future. I don't like this future. All I see is you guys are building machines to exploit people.

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Re:San Francisco Spent a Decade Being Rich, Important, and H... by enraged_camel on Sunday December 22, 2019 @12:51AM (#21855480)
>> That's exactly what I'm talking about. You can cherry pick good and bad actors in any industry.

It's not cherry-picking at all. Look around you. The most powerful and influential actors in our industry are also the worst.

>> This ignores all of the dedication poured into open source

Please don't strawman. I am very clearly not saying that the entire industry is bad.

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