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Curiosly, they only say this to their European customers. It isn't clear that they plan to continue supporting North American customers.

Either way, eventually operations will halt, because existing products will be out of their update commitments.

Headline would be more accurate if it said "is winding down".

Are you sure? I'm pretty sure the button says 'buy' or something similiar, not 'rent'.

I would argue that we don't need new regulations, we need to enforce existing laws against fraud. It is fraudulent to sell something and then later disable ones access to the thing you sold them access to.

I'm not sure that there is any law forcing you to accept it, but if you have a mailbox, it will get put into it. I don't think there is any law requiring anyone to have a mailbox, though.

Is it? I don't think I would miss the junk mail delivery service if it went away entirely.

It was my understanding that this is actually something they are doing with GTA VI.

And many laborers have retirement accounts and pension funds that are also capital owners, so they benefit from increases in capital too.

From the horses mouth: "Michael Niedermayer, a leading FFmpeg developer, tweeted, “I am the main developer fixing security issues in FFmpeg. I have fixed over 2700 Google OSS fuzz issues. I have fixed most of the BIGSLEEP issues. And i disagree with the comments FFmpeg (Kieran) has made about Google. From all companies, Google has been the most helpful & nice.” https://thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-google-fund-us-or-stop-send...

Sounds like Google has been very helpful and nice.

Maybe you posted the wrong link- I don't see anything at all about Google making a report or being asked to do anything and declining?

Sorry, I am aware of this, I worded my comment incorrectly. What I meant to say is that one will be unable to ask for money for a ~different license~ to my contributions, becuase my contributions will be under the copyleft license, and I will not sign any agreements that give the project maintainers rights to license my contributions under a proprietary (Non open source) license. Yes, anyone is still free to ask for money for copy left code. But it is still copy left, and as such, the license goes with it.

Apologies for my poorly worded comment!

The Drupal Association and its mismanagement of the community? I don't know how dead Drupal is, but I used to actively use and promote it and I have long since moved on, due in part to the Drupal Associations shenanigans.

If you share your code with me under a copy left license, I will share my contributions under the same copy left license... you will not then be free to ask for money for things built on top of or with my contributions. You may be okay with that, but it is a decision you have to make.

I am pretty sure that these industries use the open source projects the Linux Foundation maintains. So it is pretty clear the Linux Foundation is indeed a user community group, too.

Do you have any examples of Google submitting vulnerabilities and refusing to assist maintainers create a patch when asked to do so?

So far, the Linux Foundation, from what I have seen, has pretty darn good track record of keeping the projects under its umbrella open source, even going against corporate sponsors to do so. For a recent example, see the recent NATS tuffle. (And I should.recognize that Synadia, finally, did the right thing and backed down).

I'm not sure that average across the entire industry is a good measure of how animators are paid for high budget, high talent features.

Big tech didn't steal anything. Elastic used open source software as the foundation of their product (specifically, Apache Lucene), and released their product as open source. The license allowed Elastic to do so, and likewise, the license Elastic used allowed "big tech" to use Elastics product. If it wasn't for open source, Elastic wouldn't exist.

Then, Elastic whined about Amazon using Elastic under the open source license they used to build their product. They whined that Amazon wasn't contributing enough. So they switched the license to their product. So Amazon took over maintaining the open source software. Doing exactly what Elastic asked them to do.

Sorry, but everything about Elastic, and especially this most recent announcement of layoffs, scream "bad leadership".

Elastic isn't Open Source though, they abandoned Open Source. It seems to me like this is an example of non-Open Source whatever licensing causing job loss. Or just plain bad leadership.

It would be absolute stupidity for a property owner to keep a property vacant solely to reduce the property tax assessment. Certainly there are some stupid rich people... but I doubt that the majority are that stupid. There must be some other explanation.

Most of the US does, its called property tax. Or in some cases, land value taxes.

In another article, it mentions that there is a buffer zone still owned by the city between the houses and the datacenter. They also mention that there is another park nearby (doesn't say how near).

Okay, I can only see a few sentences and was going off what other commenters have said.

Possibly... there is a lot of unknown details here. The article posted appears to be rage bait rather than a well researched article.

Thanks, I actually just found that article- and it gives a completely different view of events than the posted article. For one, it says the suit was from a group of residents, not the family who donated the land.

There seems to be some missing details from the few sentences in this article. Does anyone have the full story? Why did the court dismiss the families lawsuit?

Not the poster to whom you are questioning, but I would argue that inspiring and encouraging are much better than coercing, especially if the goal is to educate, as I am skeptical that coercion is ever going to work to get true learning.

But there is a difference in behaving ethically and behaving legally. While there may be consequences for behaving unethically (IE "I won't do business with them because I do not feel they are ethical"), society generally only overtly punishes those who do things that are illegal.

At that point, why wouldn't they just give their employees a corporate debit card and say "go and buy the subscription you want."? I suppose the enterprise plans come with additional controls and features? But are they worth it?

Well that is why it is open source. It doesn't matter how big the company is behind it, you can use it without the company that owns the name, and even use a different, small tech company for support.

Your recourse for Meta bricking your hardware is Small Claims Court, in the US anyway... other countries may have something similar.