It costs time to develop software. It costs time to support software. It costs time to fix bugs. It costs money to lease server space and provide bandwidth. Why not charge for support, documentation, and feature requests? Keep binaries and source are available.

Eventually they will embed cameras in the screens to monitor your eyes. The ads will pause until youâ(TM)re looking at them.

How do you quantify those savings?

When does a tech company not infest everything with ads? Thatâ(TM)s the point of tech - seek rent everywhere

Most lack the mental fortitude to stop paying/using over this

The founding fathers were concerned about a terrifying all powerful government trampling the rights of its citizens. Why would that translate to the government disarming and diminishing the possible strength of the militia?

The militia is defined as all men between the ages of 18-45. Members of the militia weee required to provide their own weapons and equipment.

Why does t that mean that all citizens between 18-45 are required to own military grade weapons, under the original meaning of the second amendment?

Why is the tax code so complicated that we need software like this in the first place, and why arenâ(TM)t we pushing to make it simpler?

Why is that a bad thing? A library of validated functions that can be glued together would be more secure and more stable than bespoke programming. Itâ(TM)s not as efficient, but with modern processors why is that important? In the industrial automation world this is what systems like PlantPAX are for.

Why donâ(TM)t the people who run those companies have the right to decide how to invest their resources?

It costs money to patch obsolete stuff

How can you quantify the damage caused by the change in climate vs the damage that would have occurred without the climate change? Say a hurricane destroys a small town - what percentage of the damage is caused by climate and what percentage is natural?

Letâ(TM)s say the Anthropic tech gets adopted by an aerospace company that makes dual use technology, like jet engines or avionics. Anthropic writes contract language into that contract that prohibits certain military uses. The military develops a need that this tech satisfies, but cannot use it because of the Anthropic contract language. That sort of sustain makes Anthropic a supply chain risk to the military.

Explain why thats an incorrect conclusion.

So what? The pilot program is over. Now they are negotiating a contract for actual battle ready use. So again - why should the military accept limitations against otherwise lawful use in its operations, and why should it allow such limitations in its supply chain? Explain how the presence of such limits does NOT create a supply chain risk?

I struggle to find a scenario where a federal judge issues a precedent setting ruling that limits how the US military can or cannot label something as a supply chain risk for itself, regardless of what they think of this particular set of circumstances.

They are a supply chain risk. Restricting dual use technology from legal applications could harm military readiness. Letâ(TM)s say Anthropic tech winds up at a jet engine supplier and helps create a new engine for a commercial airliner. Anthropic could exclude that tech from military applications via its T&C - that harms military readiness.

You know the government owns most it not all of its IP in its supply chain, right? Itâ(TM)s all work for hire. Why should the government accept such risk in its supply chain? Why doesnt allowing Anthropic to participate in DOD supply chains create a risk to operational or military effectiveness?