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Possible answers: Maybe because the Apache Software Foundation spent over two years debating a feather versus a leaf? see https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/11/native_american_apach... Or because the Open Source Initiative wasted over a year debating election rules? https://lwn.net/Articles/1056376/ Or because the Document Foundation has been locked into a fight with its own members? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47157999 Looks like a pattern, doesn't it?

This is from 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://yakshav....

https://lwn.net/Articles/814508/ Lots of the history is here

Afaik AWS re-implemented a subset of the mongodb API in DocumentDB, didn't use Mongodb code. The agpl was never an issue for AWS.

Sharks have teeth, they bite and shred their prey. Sharks don't need to swallow you

Yeah, but if you hire a fascist and you know they're a fascist in a company where the majority of your workers is not a fascist, you're going to have problems. Even if you discover after hiring them that they're fascist you'll have unhappy workers. You'll find a way to fire that fascist or lose the rest of the company.

Ex-Felons have paid their debt to society, or at least get should be considered as such. And still, it's harder for them to get jobs.

Not necessarily work for a ngo, but volunteer for one, join a union, join the local political groups that actually make a difference locally in your community. So many options, besides the work place.

I think it's a legitimate question: we all have a large chunk of savings stuck in this game because of perverse incentives set by corrupt/inept US gov. Now what?

> Where do you live that the middle class doesn't have to worry about paying for college?

Europe, most likely... You know, those socialist countries where there is still a middle class.

It's weird to read this because building's architects and designers do exactly that: they have to make tremendous efforts to design complex systems (think an airport or a hospital) before they lay down a single brick. Somehow this idealization and planning step is impossible for software developers.

> at least can answer FaceTime calls because the answering interface is so easy to use.

This! I can't believe how shitty every single other video call apps are! Who invented swipe-to-answe? How did they test that? It's the most anti-intuitive move I've ever experienced and it took me months of frustrations to teach my 80+ old parent when he has an Android tablet... I ended up giving him an iPad just to use FaceTime

Think of it as tax engineering: companies build devices to avoid paying too much taxes. It's a thing, you'd do it too if you had enough money to justify the investment in such engineering :)

> What about "stop putting me on call without compensation or I will leave the company"

Says the dude without kids and a mortgage who can afford a couple of months without a salary :)

Qgis and Grass, and the whole suit of geospatial open source tools. https://qgis.org/en/site/ for more

Did you vote at past elections? If you didn't, you're partially responsible for the shit we walk on.

You mean sysadmins, not developers right? :)

They don't follow the rfc if they don't. Email protocol is resilient to servers not being teachable for a few days. Humans forgot that though and came to think that email is like slack

Attacks from cats and rats, most likely.

That site came out and was popular when D-Link and Cisco were brought to court for violating Welte's copyright, IIRC.

Have you tried fixing the map yourself? It's easy, just like Wikipedia.

The first Amiga was released only a year after, in 1985. The Mac was a toy in comparison.

Comic books will start to make sense on eink

We need to think of ways to run the various Matrix, Mastodon, peertube etc in tiny boxes in our homes! There is no real reason for not promoting self hosting. The same way i buy a small Nas or an amazon firetv stick, with apps, I would buy a small box with pihole, mastodon and matrix.

Sounds like the approach taken by zulip. Check it out, it's a cool paradigm

The thing is... The claim of fraud have been investigated and nothing came up. Over 50 legal processes started not a single one of which convinced a judge that there are reasons to investigate. There is nothing for the media to investigate.

Check the European standards for covid-19 tracing apps: those don't collect any personal data.

Gutenberg is great for website development. It's overkill for editors writing blog posts.

These driver assistance is IMO especially useful onn such boring drives. I don't expect this tech to be legally cleared for busy city streets for a long time.

Gutenberg Is horrible for blogging. It's great to design pages though.