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"Until the new Terms are accepted access to the web interface and API will be blocked. So, for users who have integrations with our API this will cause a brief pause..."

It's not even take it or leave it, one has to agree first in order to leave.

It seems whoever approved this, forgot why people arrived to GitLab from GitHub.

He writes this paragraph that may explain your observation:

"So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing. It is my job to create universes, as the basis of one novel after another. And I have to build them in such a way that they do not fall apart two days later. Or at least that is what my editors hope. However, I will reveal a secret to you: I like to build universes which do fall apart."

Well, say that I want to know if you are interested in golf. Do you prefer me asking if you can fill in a questionnaire, or should I just pop where you live and take pictures from inside your house?

You really don't have to play devil's advocate, one of them is illegal.

If a company has no viable way forward, and has to resort to what the rest of us deemed illegal, it should stop existing. Not all companies should survive at any cost, that's not utilitiatian or desirable.

Having lived through a hyperinflation, I would not have touched Bitcoin with a ten foot pole. You want a rock stable foreign currency when the times are hard, not something that can push you even lower due to loss of even the minimal resources that you have.

AWS lock-in is different from a taxi app. Only a few players so far managed to respond to AWS in scale and offerings.

Lots of taxi companies have their own apps at this point.

I read this analysis that before the Dotcom bubble burst, unicorns cashed out in a similar fashion. The authors were proposing to watch for the next wave as an indicator, as VCs would be trying to cash at the best time (or at all) before a recession.

From that twitter feed

"adrian cockcroft:

What should we have done instead, that Elastic would have agreed to? We have customers to support"

And this is where the spot he is in gets tighter. Because now the aws business model threats anybody using X as Amazon's user that should be monetized.

So I don't see Amazon backing off profits, and I don't see the OSS community getting any less pissed off from not seeing a piece of the cake.

This story (Mongo, elastic co, etc) seems far from being over.