I’m not, but it’s obviously an issue with text as the reader abstracts a convolution function of their current mental state onto the text they read. (There are great key and peele skits about this!). Outliers are interesting but tricky to act on.
Also, AFAIR Bill Gates personally and in person intervened and paid a visit to Munich's mayor Christian Ude.
Here is an interview with Christian Ude in which he mentiones that Bill Gates was unable to understand how reying on Microsoft products would make a city "dependent":
> Funnily enough, during the conversation, he kept making new financial offers, including what Microsoft would add to the price, for the school department, for example. They continually became cheaper by a million, another million, another million, and later a dozen million. That's how important the symbol of the renegade state capital of Munich, internationally perceived as an IT stronghold, was to Microsoft.
This was Ballmer though, not gates. Maybe Gates had a separate visit.
Thank you, that's what I had in mind. The timeline is an amusing read, but as I read it it's really a mix of "buttons in the wrong places" and lobbying.
The thing which stood out to me was the office suite incompatibility statement.
It's probably a legit complaint, but still potentially the fault of Microsoft. People learn how to use Excel, and the free alternative suites don't have all the same functionality (or if they do, it's not the same UI so you have to re-learn it).
And with as prolific as Office is, you're going to have to open office documents. If that doesn't work cleanly, that's a big issue.
I haven't looked into if whatever incompatibilities are a result of Microsoft pressure or technical shenanigans, or it just being a natural consequence of the free suites being less well funded in their development efforts.
I don't think it's impossible to run an enterprise with FOSS - but it is not easy.
We tried that. Nothing has changed since then - if anything he has consolidated more power.
Republicans would have to lose a lot of seats for it to happen. Or, Trump would do something beyond the pale for the GOP. Hard to imagine what would make them change their minds on it. Probably not thousands of dead protesters.
I don't have kids. My wife and I chose not to. We are really happy with all the stuff we have going on that we don't have to juggle kids as well.
What an amazing world we live in where we can make that choice.
I think of my friends - they all seem firmly in the camp of "having kids is awesome". Even the one friend who almost died from her pregnancy (her daughter is now 13, plays saxophone, wears all black and has blue hair).
Well, almost dying doesn't make the experience of having a kid bad intrinsically.
It's the birth that becomes really scary, I suspect they won't go for a second one
> I tuned in deliberately on Jan 7, 2021, just a few days before Rush passed away, and found he was shocked and aghast at what had happened to the day before... but did not draw the connection to how the culture he created contributed to it.
That's kind of his thing. He's complained about drug addicts and perverts, but yet he was a prescription junkie, and also got caught flying to the Dominican Republic with a bunch of Viagra and condoms in his suitcase.
Even if he was acutely aware of the connection between his rhetoric and Jan. 6 events, it would probably bother him not at all and he'd refuse to acknowledge it unless forced to face it (like with his drug woes).
You would be shocked how Blase people are about it.
The credit card companies block a transaction and issue a card replacement and everyone feels OK again.
I have had a couple of PayPal alternatives accounts opened using my email address. Still feel on edge about it. Holy shit. The only thing which gives me a modicum of peace is I get free credit monitoring from the Equifax boondoggle.
Allegedly Allscripts (now Veradigm) made their flagship products interoperable, the idea being that customers could choose to buy a giant ecosystem from them, or they could bolt on small solutions onto the giant monoliths that were their competition (like EPIC) and presumably get some revenue they weren't going to get otherwise.
Now - I never was tasked with actually using their software while I worked there, that was just the talking point in the town halls and all hands and such. Being able to export/import was part of that interoperability goal.
You can find entire albums and movies - but I get a copyright strike if I try and post a video of a live performance of an orchestra for a piece composed in 1954.
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