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Print is dead. Worst industry on the planet to focus on. Had maker picked one thing and done it right, it could still be here. It tried to be too many things at the same time.

Gates killed that idea dead, back in the 80's.

EDS - Remember that big huge company H.Ross Perot Ran? - We TRIED to buy PCs from hardware vendors without Windows. They refused due to how Bill locked them into contracts. If it was to run Windows, then Windows was shipped with every single hardware sale. On the bill of lading.

Government doesn't pay for stuff they don't use. Didn't want Windows if they were to run UNIX (Santa Cruz Operations XENIX System 5, to be precise). Wonder why some people at SCO went crazy and snorted their futures? Blame Bill.

I disagree - that's not a link to a paper by the Sunlight Foundation.

It's a link to a site that wants you to agree to try a monthly subscription before you can download anything at all.

Especially in the context of a discussion about public data, that's an important distinction.

If you can, please provide an URL to the actual content?

More importantly, why is having an ostrich jacket relevant? I don't have a pony either.

I consulted there years back. Helped them relo to a new building. Dolly in one hand, network layouts in the other. After the relo was done, I transitioned to handling trouble tickets along with other consultants.

After a couple of months, our "leader" grabs me and his lieutenant for a special project. We had done a few of those before, I was up for it. We all went for a ride in one of the company vans. Which have only two seats. My job? Make sure the empty rack in the back of the van didn't fall over.

Dude didn't bother to slow down for a number of speedbumps. He let me go that same Friday.

In retrospect, it is always a stupid idea to extend too much trust, when any trust has not first been earned.

Any indication if they'd be willing to open source it?

Any indication if they'll open source it?

Define "senior". Senior citizen developers? Or you meant that title should mean stature? If you're still coding after being at it for >30 years then yes, you're worth that to help level up entire teams. But, yes, given the prevailing definition of senior, sure, they're worth nowhere near that.

That's senseless. Non profit doesn't mean "worthy cause I should want to die on my sword for" it simply means the corporate financial structure doesn't accommodate profit-sucking shareholders, nor building the corporate coffers from year to year.

I expect people will be paid fairly for their contributions. Are you in a position to be telling people what their time is worth? Or, possibly you're simply being a pessimist?

Zeef appears to have curation down to a science: https://zeef.com/

Examples: https://linux.zeef.com and https://databases.zeef.com

Aggregation does not necessarily imply improvement.

Architecturally, it's quite worse than just putting lipstick on a pig - they're bolting a racehorse on top of their pig.

If you look at things just right and ignore the pig, you can pretend you're galloping around on an able horse. but, inevitably, both you and the horse will have to deal with the fact that there's a pig bolted to the undercarriage.

Linux doesn't need to be put inside another OS to be any more relevant or useful.

I think, if it could talk, Linux would tell Windows: "Sit down - I got this."