Indeed. The hard lesson that I learned over my 20 years of experience with FOSS is that the social infrastructure around a piece of software is more important than the exact details of the technology itself such as programming languages, frameworks, patterns, etc. And the license is a part of that social infrastructure.
On a technical level, that’s cool.
On a practical level MIT-licensed OS better not get much mindshare. Cue everything that happened with important projects under permissive licenses over the last decade. E.g. Android, Chromium. I used to dgaf and was even quite excited about stuff like Fuscia OS. Boy did we dodge a bullet there with Google abandoning it.
Specifically US corporate interests.
I don’t think meaningful communication is a KPI they optinize for. More likely time spent in the Discover feed.
I doubt it.
Given my interactions with zionist friends and family, they’re completely out of touch. They’ve shoehorned themselves into a hasbara bubble and consider anything not pro-Israel to be “Qatari propaganda” one way or another. That closes any channel that could possibly inform them of the way they appear and lets them lean into their victimhood, raging against anyone and anything that isn’t aligned.
Has been for a long time with Waydroid. This is probably gonna make it easier to use.
If the US takes control of Venezuela’s oil prod, the OPEC and therefore Saudi control over the oil price diminishes. Therefore Saudi revenues are likely to fall. While I don’t expect Saudi to do anything, there would be logic in them doing so. Perhaps MBS could use the backchannel to tell Trump not to invade.
if his employees felt like they needed to form a union, then he would have failed as an employer
This is a standard anti-union line. It aims to maintain a union-free status quo. Employees in a non-coop union-free workplace have very little leverage to get more of the profits they generate. The workplace environment might be alright, employees might be paid alright. That doesn’t mean they’re paid fairly for the value they create. When there’s no union, employee pay is set by the labour market, regardless of how much value they create for the employer. If an employee creates 10x what they’re paid and they ask for triple pay, their employer would say there’s another candidate to take their place, that it would be a bit of hassle to train so they’d give the employee some marginal raise, to not deal with that. A union on the other hand creates the negotiating leverage to get much more of the value employees create, by threatening a significant financial and reputational loss for the employer. Linua doesn’t want that. Most employers don’t.
If it helped you, that’s great. We can dislike LTT for our reasons and appreciate the positive impact when they have it.
Grant it. Make it bluntly obvious for anyone still believing “The only democrcy in the Middle East” slogan.
This won’t end well for the US long term but American capitalism can’t see that far.
Fun fact, Igalia is a worker co-op that does open source development for hire.
The Israelis have no idea what’s coming for them. They’ve gotten themselves into this right wing stasis and they seem to have become oblivious to the domestic dangers posed by the tools and tactics they’ve developed for “external use.” This shit is coming home and I’m guessing any dissent over expansionist policy will be the first to get repressed.
That’s the issue. It’s why I’ve learned that when I can afford it and I reasonably believe this firm or project should exist, and it has a decent chance not to fall flat, I end up buying in. It’s literally upfront investment in the thing. I’m still salty for not backing the Ubuntu Phone back in 2012 or so. I looked at it as another phone compared to what’s available on the market and how the price stacks up for the features. That’s very much the wrong way to do it. A part of the value it provides is the existence of the project and the labour dedicated to it. In the case of the new Pebble, I’m backing it despite Eric, and because it’s fully open source and that’s something I want to exist. A fully open alternative in the sea of proprietary wearable crap.
Same guy. This time the whole thing is open source though, even the hardware. So that’s insurance for what it’s worth.
They went straight to BEV.
Good vid but he’s falling a bit for the corporate propaganda that costs determine prices and that consumers have real power over price setting. Most firms maximize prices while minimizing costs. Consumers have especially little market power in a consolidated market like home appliances.