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by F6F6FA 5y ago
Not surprised. Sometimes give a tip for good service. If you want people/companies to pay $ then you are not working on OSS.
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by F6F6FA 5y ago
Pooptimized.
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by F6F6FA 5y ago
> We still don't know > are you trying to Level 0 thinking, you do not even know the value of your cards. Such sophistry could only work on similar-leveled people. So if I engage, I'd be bluffing, and this is not a good idea
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by F6F6FA 5y ago
How can you have integrity of the justice system if you don't have integrity of facts? What you call torture, is the isolation and lack-of-stimulus we put all prisoners through. This treatment is not specific to harass Assange, but Ass
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by F6F6FA 5y ago
To what? People discussing and voting for their favorite candidate? Before it got censored as fake news, parts of social media were pretty damn correct on the pandemic and its origins. All of regular media followed the narrative, some afrai
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by F6F6FA 5y ago
Perhaps OSS has become too sophisticated and professional-standard for its own good, while still being created and maintained by amateurs. I have an analytics package which is apparently being evaluated by the military of a large country. E
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by F6F6FA 5y ago
Consultants sometimes dislike NDA, because as a consultant, you are already expected not to disclose. It is strongly implied, like patient-confidentiality. Airing dirty laundry or competitive advantage as someone visiting many companies a y
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by F6F6FA 5y ago
If this becomes a cultural thing, part of OSS, then more employees inside big companies will start to advocate for funding the OSS they rely on. Companies found to be profiting of OSS, while keeping a closed wall, complaining, but not contr
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by F6F6FA 5y ago
I feel this is a problem of companies being cheapskates, not of OSS maintainers. So do not make it their problem. I do not make OSS for companies, but for enthusiasts, contributing to building cool stuff, students and researchers. Don'
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by F6F6FA 5y ago
I do not think it is an advertisement. The author studied CS at MIT. Then was a journalist based in Moscow. Now works for the Wall Street Journals on scoops involving DARPA. But I do think it is artificially placed. Probably an institutiona
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by F6F6FA 5y ago
The word "cartel" is too negative, especially when discussing political and social factors. The narrative seems written, before their findings. Or at least, it could well have. For a computer science analogy: It is a paper with th