... the America's Cup challenge team remains intact.

All true. But office work is essential to maintain "the corporate culture". Whatever that is. Something akin to military culture with its command hierarchy, as far as I can tell. (Probably why there's so many ex-military people climbing the corporate ladder.) An order gets barked down the line and absolute unquestioning loyalty is required. Maybe if we are all taking the next hill, charging into machine gun fire. But not in most enterprise decision making. There's usually time to stop and think of better solutions.

Nope.

First, there was nothing.
Then God created light.
And there was still nothing. But at least you could see it.

Possibly the motivation for this.

Term limits for the Nigerian Minster of Finance?

Well, that does it. You are tossed out of the Democrat Party. Repeat after me:

There is a secret cabal of Jeff Bezos/Elon Musk/Donald Trump clones that conspire to hold you down.

Got an alternate link that doesn't divert me to ads for cheap watches and flea-bag condo units?

... The Great Unloading.

You can't really expect rich people to sell into a market that isn't buying.

And my point - Not much of modern Linux is hampered by lack of funding. And the Linux movement has a long history of contributors who were essentially sponsored by their employers. NASA, for instance, had a few key contributors who took time form, full-time duties to make Linux much much better.

This. Constructive thinking is like searching a problem space using good heuristics. To quickly recognize and reject the blind paths and pursue the productive ones. Practice is what produces and re-enforces these heuristics.

You've got to do repeated design, build, test loops to get good. Problem with AI to date: It's up to you to "spot the hallucinations". So that learning loop is split between the AI and the developer. Nobody "gets good".

Poster seen at IBM:

THINK
or THWIM

Funny. I thought they all ended in BSOD.

Browsers can be installed by a user. Nothing stopping your kid from downloading his own copy and configuring it as he sees fit. Put that function in the kernel and it's more difficult (but not impossible) to circumvent.

Would charging for access have stopped the work on Wayland?

That by itself is no mean feat of engineering.