I am influenced by both and control none, bobbing along the waves of misinformation and mismanagement like a cork in the ocean .

few people know that or will understand it; it’s been tarnished by the foundation.

If I were managing thunderbird, I would do a rebrand because I am not the first or last person to make that mistake ; there are tens of millions of me

Just for argument’s sake, it’s easier to change the behavior of one mismanaged foundation than the broken news cycles

Few know how things are structured. Or more importantly, how it could be restructured later.

I’m cynical and already looking at forks

This all assumes all years are measured by the same orbit with no mixing and matching planets or space habitats.

The standard earth year had not been adopted system wide

Some socks have horrible return times

I was master of staring off into space and day dreaming, if I did not have anything to read, before the phones came.

It does not say how they make it; just because it’s cheap for them to make in small scale is not enough info. Many good things easy to make on a workbench fail to be marketed

It all depends if this can be produced in big quantities without it being too expensive.

Maybe found fossils of cell membranes, maybe not

I have eaten many things on this list the past couple years. I’ve seen some of these at church and socials. It’s not just me.

I would love to see how they pulled this list together, was it AI? Or perhaps a dark crevice? Office poll? Their mom?

The mit license allows a mix of public and commercial code run by the same company, with minimal legal issues. One can use other tactics I am sure, but this one seems good when the commercial code absolutely needs the public code .

I think some confusion here can be resolved by stating this is anti foss, taking advantage of foss, it is capitalism taking advantage of having a good code base while making sure any contribution from outside the company is minimized. At the same time it gives my company absolute control over the private part.

Usually get into arguments here! I’m not defending it, but am saying open source would be less without.

For our use case, this makes the most sense.

I’m not at all sure about the larger trend you noticed, but I know a non trivial number are doing it for the same reasons

Speaking for myself, it’s because future monetization can be easier under mit when using a foss utility and private code.

My project would not exist at all unless there were ways to make money off it.

True, others can also use that same code too, in the exact same way, but that requires quite the investment, and those of us that are doing this are banking on not getting the interest of a monopoly in that way. We are competing against other small businesses who have limited resources.

At the same time the free part can get a boost by the community.

I comment a lot in politics here, and am sometimes an ass, so cannot name this project

I have the opinion the best quality chair one can find is as important as the best computer one can use

It’s really hard to remove bought politicians when it’s the rule and not the exception

It’s better to ask forgiveness than permission

In some situations with some people yes. It’s really hard to separate the project and team.

Usually, projects I have seen start with the best plans and methods, or at least vague good intentions, but later pretend they never met them. Like a cheap date.

There are some projects that naturally lend themselves to one approach or other, and they last longer following the original guidelines ; but if a project lives long enough these guidelines become the enemy.

I think the only projects that follow any set of guidelines for longer than a few years; they have a narrow purpose for being. Straightforward evolution or needs

Maybe if the threads pause a lot, and pause even more as the stack unwinds to the final exciting conclusion.