In the early days of certain groups or technologies, those people would often amass in a group for something related. They'd purposefully not create their own group too early, as doing so would put a small number of people at risk of being told their posts were off topic in the larger, older group. The Perl language, for one, got a good deal of its early following by people posting solutions in Perl to questions in the shell programming groups. It wasn't a flame war with one side shouting down the other, but it absolutely was recruiting by exposing another group to ideas in their own realm on purpose.

Here is some counter pedantry on Anonymous Coward's absolute about possessives:
Here is some counter pedantry on Anonymous Coward's absolute about possessives.

Perhaps AC meant that possessive pronouns do not take apostrophes.

Inflation is not caused by economic growth, at least not directly. Growth leading to inflation is a false premise.

What causes inflation is an excess of money circulating in the general economy. Look at wealth and income inequality charts over the last 5, 10, 20 years. The growth in money spent is all going to a few super wealthy people at the very top who are hoarding it in their static wealth. It is not liquid money out circulating in retail and manufacturing, raising demand for products among the many. So price aren't rising.

Another factor is that many, many prices are by necessity tied to the price to produce refined petroleum products. The usable reserves have grown. There are more competitors drilling and extracting than before. The cost to process previously difficult to extract sand and tar oils (dig it up then break it down) have largely been supplanted by fracking. The major wars in oil-rich areas have settled somewhat. More homes and vehicles are being powered by other means. So those diesel surcharges from a few years ago that were part of every shipment of food, raw materials, or manufactured products no longer applies.The base cost of acquiring things has dropped, not risen.

A third factor is the scale of automation in the current economy. You're not calling to book a flight, then calling another number to book a hotel, and a third to book a car. You're doing it from a browser via an automated website that runs on automatically provisioned and automatically monitored web applications. You're sending emails, chats, or doing conference calls instead of tying ten cent per minute phone lines together in a hardware PBX. You're buying many of your physical goods from an app (phone app or web app) instead of a salesperson and cashier, and there's no showroom. Products have come down some in certain segments, but meanwhile much of the savings is more profit for the very rich mentioned before. Even basic consulting and product reviews are often crowdsourced. It's a service economy with the services automated. Those of us who still have work pay less than we might otherwise, at least until our jobs are also automated away.

Put the chair down, Mr. Ballmer.

They contribute it upstream but Elastic doesn't accept the PRs because the Amazon changes undercut their business.

Elastic doesn't offer a fully functioning product in the open core. You not only don't get a lot of extra bells and whistles. You not only don't get multitenancy. You're not just missing RBAC. You're missing more than a few hand-added accounts. It's worse than not integrating with OIDC or SAML2, or even LDAP. The open source core doesn't have a user and password. You have to build that or put it behind something like HTTP Basic Auth or an authenticating proxy server.

Other companies have done fine with open core and additional products and services around it. Nginx, Puppet, and GitLab for example have fully usable open source software. There are advanced features, supporting software, tech support, and other things you get for paying. The main application though is perfectly fit to be used by itself in production. Even MySQL as run by Oracle is marketed this way.

Funny how that was edited after I posted, isn't it? Also, note that it says it's an alternative for informal usage. That means maybe it's alright in the discussion threads, but the article and summary should use the original word.

The word "install" is a verb. The noun is "installation". You install something. The something in a state of having been installed is an installation.

You invite someone with an invitation. A judge passes judgment. Someone passing judgment when one shouldn't is being judgmental.

News for nerds, parts of speech that matter.