The ideal would be companies just share their code and fixes of their own accord, but companies will go a long way to avoid doing this (I used to work for one, the open source was such a small part of our value add that this was justified, but we still shared bug fixes). Cloud companies haven't been doing this.

OK, so a lot of that article is bullshit. First, this isn't a very recent thing, elastic search changed its license in 2021. Mongo in 2018. But it's being changed to restore the original balance. Previously, you sold software as a binary. To do that, you had to include licenses for open source software and that usually required publishing any changes you'd made to that software (like bugfixes) and possibly even meant you had to open source parts of your software. The requirement to do that is circumvented by cloud providers not distributing binaries or source code, only sharing with users the product of that code. This is a new business model. The license changes the requirement so that you have to share your code when the software is provided as a service. It's not some new requirement. I think the biggest problem with this approach to licensing is that the big cloud companies have the capabilities to create from scratch a competitor in a relatively short time span.

I only need to look at the state of video codecs to know that mainly closed source isn't a good option...

The 8 to 3 kinda says change your first round of interview. That's something that should be fairly easy to eliminate on and is wasting time.

Your son is a worm?

But then the same hardware would serve pretty well as a Linux box

@Wombat to be honest, I quite like windows (10) for my personal machine, cheaper for comparable hardware and simpler than Linux. Asus Zenbook would be my reccomendation.

There are two main options of varying quality, they're called "Windows" and "Linux", you might have heard of them. Beyond that, instructions unclear, ceiling fan is an option.

@ScriptCoded touché. Took me a moment. I was reading this expecting an actual explanation.

IDK, if you're doing it coz you want to call someone an asshole I'm OK with it

https://santander.co.uk/business/...

Apparently London, so yes. Might check this out, thanks!

Legally blind doesn't necessarily mean no sight. But also I bet they kick ass at accessibility.

@Lensflare I think the point was "that's shit that's actually happened (possibly to them)"

Get out more?

Not sure if that means you're 17 or 20. More information needed.

Welcome to stack overflow.

In 50 years, there, their and they're will be one word because in context you know which is being used (see - speech). There'll just be some pedants complaining.

But if there were no escapes... Where do the stories come from..?

My brain trying to grok stigma and stigmata

Play Rimworld, commit war crimes

HL2 had the most moments of things I'd never seen before. Like chopping a headcrab zombie in half with a saw blade, the first real game I played to turn the environment into a weapon.

@Demolishun I mean, I threatened to sue my employer for discrimination and don't take my job too seriously as a result, if that fits.

Me meanwhile fucking with compiler setup trying to get the latest and greatest c++23 working

If it helps, we hate you.

@netikras the classic is when something just straight up crashes because some dependency doesn't support the instruction set on a slightly older server, but it takes ages to work that out. Or different instruction sets mean a slightly different computed result, failing some regression test and spending hours working out why because something was compiled with funsafemath

Me, meanwhile, amazed I still haven't been fired...

My favourite is when different instruction sets break things in different ways...

So... You're 12?

Could be worse. Could be windows 11.