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Comment Yep - Sounds about right! (Score 1) 90

Having been in a couple of very senior roles in amazon competitors, I can confirm that this is probably a represenative situation across the internet industry. Fortunately, many people are trying to improve for the simple reason that it is good economy or because it has to be done (just like this amazon activist group), but you may wish that the view presented was an honest one as that would certainly accellerate the change. It would most likely just take a few billion USD to smartify the grid in a country like UK or German. Imagine what could happen if a small fraction of the hundreds of billions going into share buybacks at Apple, Google and facebook would be used on accellerating sustainable energy?

Comment Re:Take it to the court of public opinion. (Score 1) 272

>they provide very little outside of the fact that they hate him. They make a living out of spreading misinformation for people whos income and investment is threatened by the truth. This is all about money, money over anything else, even over potential end of civilization as we know it. It is greed and selfishness at the most extreme levels. Not hate.

Comment Rubbish (Score 1) 155

Nothing to do with infighting and lack of standards across distributions. Any of the Unix versions could have become windows. This is all about economics. A SCO Linux license cost something like 10x of windows 3.1 and was horrendously slow at the hw you had at the time. Windows 3.1 may have been a stability joke, but it ran reasonably fast. Similarly with word processors, framemaker, the leading Unix running world alternative cost 1200 usd in 1998 (from a price list I found with some quick googling) while the entire office suite at the time was 499. Similarly with the HW, everything Unix was priced at a level that was simply out of reach for most people. Linux and bsd on x386 was considered free toys for special interested people and without viable spreadsheet and text processing software (I know, there is latex and I have used it a lot myself, cut it is not an alternative for the masses), Linux and *BSD was not alternatives for the masses. Really very simple. The commercial Unix guys thought msdos and windows was just toys. They thought they had some exclusive that could be priced like a Prada handbag or something. However,, the volume products almost always wins in the end and thatâ(TM)s what really happened.

Comment Re:The human brain does the same thing... (Score 1) 182

If you: 1. studied all the work of an aritst 2. started producing millions deratives of what you studied in #1 3. charged money from everything you sold based on the work in #2 then. yes, you would definitely get sued! Make a few deratives for small scale personal fun, no, you will not get sued, but that is not why major genai startups are doing this.

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