Currently i have to work with a program that doesn't work and costs 10K/ license/year. I've now created my own version that has global search, instant import, very good UI and instant save instead of a crashing heap of garbage. 20K lines of code, no imports. Sub second performance.

Yeah AI is here to stay and you can pry it out of my cold dead hands.

Oh look, it's another Russian troll.

Yeah there is 188 billion USD earmarked for Ukraine, but Trump hasn't done anything with that and it wasn't all paid out to Ukraine either, it was paid to US companies to deliver arms. Only half has been used yet so Trump has had ample time to stop it, and didn't.

Had this not happened the USA would have faced several far more expensive crises a bit later, after Russia had digested "warmongering" Ukraine.

BTW You've got to be a total tool to accuse Ukraine of warmongering, because literally the only thing Ukraine did was to oust a corrupt lackey of Putin who wanted his country to become a serfdom like Russia and who had very close ties to Putin. I guess objecting to becoming a dictatorship is now "warmongering".

Well it's kinda hard to come up with a different name since the whole point of this exercise is to provide a European controlled initiative.

Proton isn't European, it's Swiss. And this of no use to ensure sovereignty as the Swiss usually just sell to the highest bidder.

Since "sovereign citizens" are mainly tools with feet, i think i can live quite happily without them. For the thinking people there is always the chance to self-host.

By the way: without a sovereign government democracy has no meaning whatsoever, and we already saw how Trump treats his "friends". Talking about serfs is tough talk from a keyboard warrior. The rest of us just want to make sure that what limited control we do have over our government isn't removed in favor of one of Putins or Trumps cronies.

We've seen what type he puts in charge when his ambassadors showed up. Thanks but no thanks.

The true Christian path? Lol. Did you actually write that down without laughing?

You think they're making money? I don't think so. Anyone can do this in silence, behind NDAs, with their own people. No need to put this out into the open on such an obvious target for litigation.

But wouldn't it be fun if these lawsuits led to the situation that the first published implementation gets copyright? I bet that would paralyse the entire IT industry for years, allowing Europe to catch up (unless they're just as stupid, in which case China handily wins the race).

I doubt that just that argument some would win, because there have been several cases where it didn't. Like in the case where it was obvious the AI was trained on images from a given painter, the plaintiff still could not show reproduction of the works.

Good luck with that lawsuit.

Friend of mine is an IP lawyer and he's working on an office clone to see how far he can get. It's actually important for digital sovereignty. Thank Trump for the urgency on that topic.

And if it finds critical bugs in my software I'm happy to pay the price, instead of seeing the company go bankrupt.

And you also have to ignore the CEO of curl, who is saying the same thing. And thousands of others who are using this daily and saying the same thing. Or just leave your head right where it is, all cosy and warm.

What factual arguments? You're in denial, that's not an argument.

Just read the latest info from the CEO of curl on how "meh, AI slop overload" changed into "shit, they're serious!" over the past three months. That should scare you. Or alternatively, just don't look up and there is no problem.

Well I'm happy paying a lot more than I do now. My productivity is rocketing, so as a freelancer it pays for itself ten times over.

The USA has introduced two new problems every time they tried to fix one by being ignorant murderers.

Vietnam firmly entrenched the horrible NV maoists in power.
Irak created ISIS.
Al-Qaeda was another one, born out of US interference in the Middle East.
I'll admit that Hamas and Hezbollah were the result of Israels actions and even outright support in the case of Hamas, but that was underpinned by the USA.
Afghanistan? Do I even need to say anything?
Iran being controlled by Khomeini was the direct result of murdering the democratically elected leader and installing a dictator.

Don't even get me started on South America. Those people crossing your border in the South are the direct result of the USA installing dictators and reducing the people to poverty.

There is no high ground to find for the USA. They only create problems. They've never solved one.