I would greatly prefer public sector development. I’m just being fatalistic about how our oligarchy conducts itself.
A loom that learned to weave itself.
I would greatly prefer public sector development. I’m just being fatalistic about how our oligarchy conducts itself.
I like democracy, but I don’t like our short-sighted (4-8 year) election-campaign-based governing. But between our public and private sectors I know we can meet this challenge and make this happen.
Man, I wish we (Canada) were that ambitious. I know lemmy hates Elon Musk but I really admire his ambition in technical pursuits. I’m not saying we need more Elon Musks, but we should pursue more grand projects.
I don’t remember ever expecting much.
Hey, a Norm MacDonald reference!
Yeah Microsoft should take the risk here, not American citizens.
So let Microsoft pay to restart it.
I guess it the government gives them the loan then the gov’t gets interest payments, which must help inflation over time. Assuming that they make those payments…
I never took him at his word.
Does Notepad++ allow rich text?
Word is now so bloated that I fear using it. It’s nice to have Wordpad.
But what about their freedom to cheat me out of my money and content?
I never heard it before.
I rarely play the stories anyway. I just like driving around, doing jumps, and having the cops chase me.
AI better cure cancer if we’re using this much energy on it.
First Trump’s idiots will do something stupid. Then Kamala will overreact and do something stupid which infringes on all our freedoms, like extra spying and cracking down on speech and curtailing the right to protest.
Now everybody will learn that I’m ugly.
In order to answer this, I’d need to compare the efficacy of both the for-profit and the non-profit organizations. In some countries you don’t get paid, and I don’t know if that leads to blood shortages.
By “self hosting” do you mean serving apps from your own computer, where that computer is always online so you can access your own apps from the net on a client machine? Even when you’re at work or out in the city?
Oh nice, fellow Canadians doing the good work.