... And it's pretty obvious why Facebook /meta leadership are trying to suppress it and yet are strangely silent about their exact grievances. However morally bankrupt you thought they were, the truth is worse, much worse. It's also clear that it's going to be almost impossible for them to meaningfully refute it. The author is a trained lawyer and international diplomat, she knows what she can defend. In many cases the corroboration is already out there or available from sources beyond reproach.

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1. Where are you getting the idea that the desks can be time shared? It doesn't say that in the article. The edict is based on the idea of collaboration which suggests having the maximum number of people in the office at the same time. 2. Suppose we accept your calculation that there are 55% of the required desks available with maximum time sharing permitted. Does it significantly change the point here?

What sort of advert is that the bank's CEO hasn't reckoned the limitation of there being just over 1/4 the number of desks needed to satisfy his edict?

Working in an office has been a brief aberration for a short part of recent human history. Agrarian societies obviously largely worked from home. Pre industrial tradesmen and artisans worked from home. With the industrial revolution people got pulled into factories and offices. We're now at the point where a significant number of jobs don't have any intrinsic requirement for workers to be in any specific location. It's been covered over and over but there isn't any data to drive return to the office, it's all 'management feels'. Countered with the enormous and documented benefits for individuals and the environment from allowing WFH. Whenever you see an RTO mandate, it's always from the C-Suite, never the staff. It's like Canute trying to hold back the sea. The change has already happened and the genie is out of the bottle. Just done people haven't read the memo yet

Let's all stop here folks! @rlwinm has solved the universal case! Their "philosophy"/feels trumps anything anyone else might come up with, and until you can get inside their head with them, you're just going to have to suck it up as that's the way it will be. Seriously, the idea that to work is to suffer is fundamentally a moral/religious position, not a practical one. It's not for you to choose everyone else's religion for them

Rights or wrongs of the situation aside (and I do greatly disagree with McJannet), the elephant in the room is 'if Open Source is so terrible, why did you produce and market software under an open source license and why do you continue to do so?". It's worth noting that only Terraform itself has the new BSL license- the providers are all still MPL. The answer of course is that Terraform would never have got the traction it did if it had been a proprietrary product from the beginning. It would not have had the credibility and assurance amongst users, and it would not have had the contributions from both individuals and from organisations producing their own terraform providers. This situation is not a new thing, we've seen companies try to close off previously open products over and over. I can't readily think of any where the closed version went on to be successful but the open version was not

Err 'kikes'? Really? Do you know what that word means?

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It's all very well to identify people at risk of falling but the issue isn't really that. Far more common that older people are in an oversized house that they have lived in for years and they are set in their ways and do not want to move

The BBC originally based their iPlayer software around windows media player and were heavily criticised at the time for using a solution that blocked non-windows platforms, including Apple, mobile and Linux. This was principally because they wanted to DRM all of the downloaded files in the interests of 'rights holders', i.e. BBC worldwide (their commercial arm). This includes automatically deleting files after a certain time from your computer amongst other things. They were ordered by the BBC commission (basically their governors) to come up with a cross-platform solution pronto and chose Flash as it covered a wide enough range of devices to get them off the hook in a hurry- bear in mind that iPlayer apps are also available for Windows Mobile; Symbian; Nintendo Wii; xBox 360; Sony PS3 etc. which can all use Flash. There have been third party solutions that made content accessible beautifully and they have all been removed due to pressure from the BBC due to 'concerns from rightsholders', i.e. sidestepping DRM. The issue is not with finding a cross-platform codec or software, the problem is the BBC wanting a cross-platform DRM in a diverse technology environment. This is why they are having to build and support all these different apps and are crapping it about Flash going away.

From Engadget 'official quote: "Samsung takes Mr. Hassan's claims very seriously. After learning of the original post this morning on NetworkWorld.com, we launched an internal investigation into this issue. We will provide further information as soon as it is available."' http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/30/samsung-reportedly-installing-keylogger-software-on-r525-privac/

What about GCstar http://www.gcstar.org/ ? It is specifically a collection manager for things like books, comics and movies. I have a collection of 1500 movies indexed with it and it even lets you specify a location, e.g. your hard drives, from which to open the file. It is free and cross platform and I have used it successfully for several years. It would seem to cover all the criteria that you have listed