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Grüße aus Österreich

Yes Germany

These are all shitty companies. But if I can decide, I choose the European shitheads.

Gut so

Make sure your banking apps support it.

Interessant. Also quasi ein Voting System das auch die mentale Gesundheit beachtet?

Why do you assume the developer has to implement what could be paid for?

If 80% of your income comes from a single company that pays you to develop the features they want, can you afford to decline specific requests without risking that client? Probably not. Without income diversification, you can quickly end up in a situation where your client dictates your work.

Why is the assumption that devs will give up agency?

Because financial dependence limits choice. When a developer relies on just a few clients, those clients gain leverage over them, making it difficult to turn down requests, even if they’d prefer to.

And why the assumption that all paid requests will be by corporations?

Because private individuals rarely spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to get a feature implemented. A more realistic approach for individual users would be crowdfunding or pooling resources to fund specific features.

Then corporations will decide even more where open source projects are going. If you pay me you decide where the project is going, not me.

However, if core development is unrelated to my income, I have full control over it’s fate and don’t need to implement what’s in the interest of some shitty corporation.

And democracy probably

Have you talked with a therapist?

That’s pretty optimistic

I think it’s some powder you mix with water and heat up.

Does it really matter? Many laboratories around the world experiment with highly dangerous viruses and that one leaked. Not that I like it but it’s still a fact.

Only if it’s for Client specific Extensions not the core project. Basically freelance work. Paid bug fixes and feature requests to core are a big no-go.

Klingt für mich etwas nach Panikmache. Das Gesundheitssystem muss sich immer für Katastrophensituationen wappnen, sobald die Wahrscheinlichkeit für deren Eintritt mehr als 0% sind.

I like DDG a lot more, especially because of the bang shortcuts. But I transitioned recently to Qwant. It also has bang shortcuts and is hosted in Europe.

His IQ is definitely not 145

That’s why he needed to bribe someone into saying that he has. ;)

Updated the post. Thanks for the feedback!

No it doesn’t. If Google stops supporting it, the community forks it and continues development. Has happened often in the past.