@_hossman That would probably be a big improvement, but I'm retired now and don't need to keep up-to-date on tech, the primary reason I stayed on Twitter as long as I did.
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Doug Cutting
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Doug Cutting
@cutting
Founder of Lucene, Nutch, Hadoop & Avro.
California, USA Beigetreten Temmuz 2007
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Goodbye, Twitter. I'm quitting. I love reading my friends' tweets, but I don't have the self-control to not waste hours every day also reading junk.
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"the biggest impact open source has had on industry is from the free (as in beer) effect" blog.hansenpartnership.com/paying-maintai…
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AI < BI < CI is an amazing slogan that belongs on T-shirts and stickers worldwide
Lars Albertsson is on Masto & Bluesky 🇺🇦🇸🇪🌻@lalleal
Good BI is more valuable than AI. Good CI is more valuable than BI.
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I think this oft-repeated flee from open source is almost inevitable for companies who build a business around a single (initially) open-source project.
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"If we normalize baiting developers with an open source license to gain traction and switching to a non-open source license to monopolize the returns on that traction, then the logical next step for investors will be skipping that first step entirely." redmonk.com/sogrady/2022/0…
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Or maybe you just want to buy some wine? 3/4 nvspa.betterworld.org/auctions/2022-…
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Want to go on a mountain bike ride with me in Napa County, with lunch afterwards? Want to support parks in Napa County? Want to bring up to 7 friends? 1/4 nvspa.betterworld.org/auctions/2022-…
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@patrickangeles @mjasay That's why it's a mistake to try to build a business around a single open source project. Open source is for sharing, not competing.
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@patrickangeles @mjasay A vendor's business model should be designed to protect it from cloud providers from the start. As I've said many times, if you can't stomach someone else profiting from your software, don't make it open source.
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@mikeolson I usually watch somewhat bad movies when I'm alone, saving the good ones for when I'm with someone so we can talk about it after. Recent solo watches were Steelyard Blues and Heat.
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@lalleal I apologize if I came on strong. I'm tired of the story, "we're an open-source company" followed a few years later by "our competitors are using our OSS against us so we're changing to non-OSS". It's pilot error to start with such an obviously vulnerable model, not passenger.
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@cutting But I hear you, and will reconsider. Perhaps 'annoyed' is a better fit for the world's reactions than 'entitled'.
I persist that the latter does fit for the all-white, all-male choir that showed up in my twitter feed at the time, though. Perhaps I should groom my feed.
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We are a very entitled crowd.
Bartosz Mikulski@mikulskibartosz
Programmers expect to get paid handsomely for writing software and get software for free. <sarcasm> Sure. That makes sense... </sarcasm> BTW, I love the phrase "their monthly contribution of nothing at all." It's perfect. (link in the first response tweet)
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@lalleal Users reasonably assumed that the service was sustainably supported through some means. They shouldn't have to know how. Must folks be sanguine when EpiPen prices go up tenfold? Maybe there's a good reason, but it's an unpleasant user experience.
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@cutting The anger that showed up in my feed from otherwise reasonable people regarding the G Suite free business tier and now gitlab were IMHO out of proportion.
People got an offering explicitly aimed for businesses for free for 10 years and then raged.
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@lalleal Lots try the same "experiment": free until market share is gained, then add fees. Fine. Maybe it works. But that it is annoying to customers doesn't mean they are entitled. More time could be spent earlier devising long-term fee structures rather than later accusing entitlement.
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@cutting Those are good examples. Someone else decides to give it for free for rational reasons. I see two differences.
1. Malls and restaurants are mature business models. SaaS is not and needs more experimentation.
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