Let's remember what day it is: The process happened to align to take effect today, nothing more.

Nowadays, young people also see the internet as a black-box full of truth - Everything you mentioned, old people are far more likely to have trouble with. It's old people, not young people, who fell for the "Ivermectin prevents (virus)" bullshit. Indian scammers target old people, not young people, because they know that old conservatives are dumb and gullible as fuck and therefore make easy marks.

They are explicit about the fact that their long term goal is to propagandize general populace to their ideological side. That's why they're starting to get pushback even in the West from people who would like to not have political extremist propaganda in their entertainment.

Your "waah they're propagandizing, this is alphabet propaganda" reminds me that trash like you called my family "uppity negroes" in the 60s for wanting voting rights too.

Why don't you shove your burning cross way up your inbred ass and then blow your head off with a shotgun for an encore, you fucking nazi trash.

Reagan's line was "I didn't leave the Democratic party, they left me"... because white-supremacist Ronny was angry that Johnson had signed the Civil Rights Acts. Reagan was part and parcel of the move of cross burning shitheads to becoming the core constituency of the modern Nazi Trash GOP.

Fascism is literally raising the idea of the nation as the highest ideal.

I've seen some dumb fucking screeds by neonazi fascist crap on this website, but THIS load of white-supremacist Klan Crap hooey from Nazi Shithead sfcat takes the cake.

If the government wasn't involved as it is now, we wouldn't have the cost. - after watching what happened to insulin prices under Pharma Bro, you actually believe this?

If I had one wish as a czar of the US, for one day, it would be a simple constitutional amendment: All taxes, property, income, gasoline, whatever... ALL TAXES should be consumption (sales) taxes. - Sales taxes are the most regressive form of taxation. But that fits perfectly with the republican "fuck the poor, worship the rich" mantra.

Thats it. Let them be as greedy as they want, someone else will do it for less. - We tried that already in the days of Standard Oil and abusive monopolies placing up barriers to entry once they corner a market. It didn't work for shit.

Everything in your bullshit screed contradicted by the facts is a reminder that republicans/conservatives are just lying trolls devoid of consciences.

Oh, and there's no such warning. When you get into the backseat of a robotaxi, it won't even start moving until everybody is wearing their seatbelts. I hardly see any passenger leaping into the front seat and grabbing the controls in a traffic incident.

Nah. I've rode a couple of robotaxis around the city, and while the ride is nice, it's clear we're nowhere near "get in a car and go to sleep." For one thing, the vehicles aren't even allowed on highways yet. And they require months of training on any particular urban area before they can perform reliably. I don't think there's been any training in rural or even suburban environments, which have different challenges. What you say may eventually be possible, but we're still a long way off.

Look at the salaries for generally competent software developers of any experience level in the UK. Now look in the US. It's not hard to see why our industry lags in the UK.

Look at the tax system that applies to employees in the UK. The scale in effect has massive increases in marginal tax rates part way along the curve that mean it's not a progressive system, for no sensible reason. It's even worse if you have kids, when at some points on the curve a huge proportion of any pay rise never actually reaches you in practice, or in extreme cases you can even be worse off after a pay rise, because of the strange ways that various allowances work.

Now look at the massive increases in effective taxation that have been applied to founders and owner-operators of small businesses in recent years. We're talking about 10-20% more of your revenues getting eaten by taxes before you get to keep any profits. In many cases you can now give up all the security and benefits of full-time employment (which are much better in the UK than the US, remember) and potentially invest your own money into bootstrapping your business, but then even if it works out modestly successful you end up paying higher tax rates than someone else taking a salary. Again, not hard to see why we're lacking in entrepreneurs.

Look at the flexible workforce. Contractors and freelancers in the UK live under a perpetual sword of Damocles called IR35 that has all but killed off the real flexible labour market in recent years and means even "contractors" are really being treated as disguised employees by default and again would probably be better off taking a permanent salaried position to get the extra job security and benefits. And given the difference in salaries as mentioned above, obviously some of the good people are then going to take their skills elsewhere.

None of this is news but successive governments have just stuck their heads in the sand and ignored the problems affecting smaller businesses, not just in tech but across other industries from healthcare to logistics as well. It's like they haven't noticed that there are 1,000 SMEs for every enterprise giant and collectively the SMEs create more jobs, pay more taxes, make more useful products... And then someone in government acts all surprised that our tech industry is lagging. Well, duh.

In that case, they could indeed be walking on dangerous ground here if they haven't removed/replaced those parts of the code. Do you know what licence the Eclipse-derived code was used under? Someone mentioned AGPL above but Eclipse also has its own licence that isn't obviously compatible with the AGPL terms.

I did read what you actually wrote. Perhaps it doesn't come across the way you were hoping.

You appear to be insinuating some correlation between developers who choose to use safer languages and developers who have low skills and don't care about the quality of their work. Frankly, that looks like a straw man you've invented to try to create some controversy here, because IME conscientious developers tend to be the quickest and most enthusiastic adopters of safer tools. They'd probably still be safer than average developers using any other language, but they choose tools that make them even safer where they have that option.

No, it doesn't. You have misunderstood how these licences work.

Before you dig the hole any deeper, perhaps you would like to review what the relevant licences actually say? I linked to the GPL v2 in an earlier comment, but the provisions in other FOSS licences typically work on the same basis as well.

Then perhaps you would like to post a reply citing the specific wording from any of those licences and the contractual relationship you believe exists between the copyright holder and any licensee that would impose any obligations of the kind we're discussing on the copyright holder?

But the copyright holder isn't themselves subject to the kinds of terms we're talking about in a FOSS licence, because they don't require a licence to copy or distribute the content in the first place.

For example, GPLv2 says:

Obviously that doesn't apply to the copyright holder, who by definition does have the right to modify or distribute without needing the licence.