Very interesting!!! I want to watch this as a movie!

I must stress that Joi Ito lost his job at MIT because he received by Bill Gates money from Epstein for his media lab. Also Richard Stallman lost his office there because a student campaigner took offense in his defense arguments of diseased colleague Marvin Minsky as a visitor of Epstein's island.

Under these circumstance I think it is appropriate not to name any academic institution after Bill Gates.

Apart from that I recall his companies treatment of Guido Sohne incident and his support for right wing extremist networks in Europe.

Still, Slashdot doesn't have to play along with their weasel wording. For example, "ergonomic collars that deliver an electric pulse" - just say "shock collar". Don't help them whitewash what they're talking about.

Apple is no open environment. I hate it when the corporates decide for you that you should not use your software under the next incarnation of the operating system to make way for some unproductive Cloud storage scheme.

I hope for the EU digital fairness Act to end these abusive practices.

Otherwise I use Linux and I think it is ready for mainstream now.

Fun fact: I knew a former apple lobbist who told me that Mac OS X was based on Linux. Which is not entirely correct.

If it can not do the exact same equally good for closed software projects IT IS NOT CLEAN ROOM.

I would expect it to be even more. In Germany I think every euro spent on renewables makes us less dependent on the strait of hormuz and other fossil nighmares.

https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft...

I am glad for every cent that does not fuel Exxon and the likes and the corruption of democracy that follows from that dependency.

In digital we need digital sovereignty, in energy we need energy sovereignty.

The whole Musk companies are strange, the valuation looks like fiction to me.

I mean, Musk had this car maker thar produces very few EV cars valued higher than companies that do dominate the market.

What would it take to get Wine to the next level? How much investment would be needed?

That may be the case in the US but not in Europe. There we have interop privileges in the EU software copyright directive.
This is why your the steward organisation shall be based in Europe or any other place that grants you legal satefy.

To satisfy US requirements the trick is usually to separate research from implementation.

that is, you have one project that documents functionality, and another independent project that implements the spec.

Adversarial interoperability of course needs to get stengthened.

This really does not matter. Copyright protects only the expession of software. You are free to clone software with independent code.

Let's face it, we now have four products:
- Then we have LibeOffice Online (resurrected)
- Collabora which originaed as a LO online fork.
- OnlyOffice , the Russians stranded in the Baltics
and
- Euro-Office - a fork of onlyoffice

plus from the public sector french La suite includes Cryptpad an no proper office suite
- Open desk is the German alternative at ZenDIS and includes Collabora.

I think Euro-Office will just be fine but the crucial question is how much staff they are able to amass to bring it up to speed.

You're confusing the importance of avoiding Kessler syndrome in LEO with the difficulty of causing Kessler syndrome. GEO debris can potentially remain there for millions of years before interactions between the gravitational pull of the Sun, Earth, and Moon sufficiently perturb it. LEO debris remains for weeks to months. You have to have many orders of magnitude more debris in LEO to trigger Kessler Syndrome, where the rate of collisions exceeds the rate of debris loss.

The fact that a LEO Kessler Syndrome would also be short is something that exists on top of that.

It's also worth nothing that not only are modern satellites not only vastly better at properly disposing of themselves than they were in the 1970s when Kessler Syndrome was proposed, but they're also vastly better at avoiding debris strikes. All of these factors are multiplicative together.