randoramax

Local laws may win over whatever is written in the contract. In some places the creative work you do on your free time and your own computer is yours. In other countries that's not the case. In my experience doing creative work across multiple countries you should check with your employer and get written approval to contribute to open source in your free time (or best case, during work times too)

Never heard of whale killing a kayaker with a jump. Source?

Does nextcloud still use caldav/carddav?

The choice of words for website is unfortunate, makes it look scammy.

Those who fail and get poor reproduce faster than the riches and within a few generations you put salt on your fields... Your comment reminded me of the movie Idiocracy

> MS got news-breaking fine for far less with Netscape before. But, nobody cares in 2020.

Slack did file a complain against Microsoft to the European commission.

And remember that the netscape lawsuit in EU took the good part of 10 years from first complain to sentence.

Antitrust laws are too slow to be effective.

Yes, there are a gazillion ways of making pizza without cheese. And I'm not vegan :)

You downplay the fact that Firefox at the time had Google's backing to go after Microsoft. Opera was never a threat, it was the "token" choice for Microsoft to avoid further upsetting the antitrust agencies.

It's a whole different world today.

S3 bucket with object lock is as offline and convenient as it gets

Firefox need to battle chrome and edge. Both come pre-installed in Android and Chromebook and Windows. Counting on Firefox to just be better to win against these two is naive at best.

it used to be called "private cloud", wasn't it?

To go from LA to SF, flu. To go from Fresno to SF... Airport, really????

You can only PUT money in a bank account knowing the IBAN in Europe. Automatic payments have to be formally authorized first. Europeans give it their ibans without second thoughts, never heard of any such problems as in US.

Indeed. I hoped that Ubuntu, Debian and the other understood that the APT repository is nothing but an App Store. Ubuntu was in great position to start asking for money to divert to projects. Who wouldn't pay $10 for the convenience to install Gimp or libreoffice with one command?

He can spend $300/month in many parts of Europe, get good healthcare. Even with paying some taxes to support the US billionaires, he'll live a very good life. In SV for that money he'd have to climb over zombies to go get the groceries

> He came from privilege and wealth from colonial South Africa to Canada

He turned out to be a complete asshole so that doesn't matter. Him siding with white nationalists, the whole pill thing... No, he better go back to Africa with his billions, go fix the world from there.

Tafazzin, a human protein named after the fictional character Tafazzi, an improbable wrestler whose super power is to got his own groin therefore causing the opponent to run away in reflected pain.

As a non-litigator, i call BS. Facts don't matter much when it comes to justice. Try suing a small businesses LLC for some wrong doing: they'll file bankruptcy and you'll never see your money.

This! Slack was supposed to be better than email. Now it's clear it's just another annoying tool whose purpose is to be nagged by colleagues too lazy or busy to put together their thoughts on a nicely written email.

And search, something that Ubuntu HUD/Unity (now on the extinction path) solved in a very elegant way. Hundred of menu options nested in remote menu folders made available by typing names. Best of both worlds, if you ask me.

Nit: Amiga was by Commodore, Atari had its own line of computers.

Probably because nobody understands the ramifications of what Google is doing deeply enough to build a solid-enough case. Justice is slow, too slow for modern times and laws are inadequate.

WhatsApp is second after that :)

Don't trust PIA, verify yourself (and read the comments above).

> It's with open source but not free software

What do you mean?

That's because software sucks badly. Architects are used to elegant and simple tools that work all the time: pen, paper and few other things. It's not just CAD software that sucks, it's the interfaces like mouse and keyboard that are slowing down design on computer. And yes, there are other systems but as you say they're not cheap so student architects won't learn on those.

Why do you like risking to loose your bags and constantly add 30minutes to your trips waiting for bags at the carousel? I never check bags and it's never a cost thing, only speed and convenience.

Because there is large a social cost with allowing regular people and retirement investment funds to waste money in scams. I'm not saying that Slack IPO is a scam. I'm saying that if a majority of public companies cannot turn a profit ever then nobody will ever be able to retire, except the Madoffs that we didn't catch.

This. The MacOS and Windows users have been missing on that powerful shortcut for years and now complain for a CTRL-SHIFT-C /V in terminal? Boohoo :)

Protocol and reference implementation is open source, check getknown.org and other indieweb apps http://help.micro.blog/2017/indiewebcamp/