...why? Between facial recognition, RFID tagging of individual items in stores, digital app tracking of purchase history and specific location in stores (yes, they absolutely do this, through running apps plus your WiFi MAC address, though this has gotten harder in recent years), facial recognition, and credit card number purchase correlation... dynamic pricing for individual customers in retail stores is absolutely the goal. Or at least a goal.
All of the above is real. I'm not making any piece of it up, and I'm sure there's more. I've actually been part of bids to do pieces of it. (My conscience did not like this. We lost anyway, which might actually be a bad thing, because my company probably wouldn't have executed very well....)
Maybe I'm missing something here, but isn't Wordpress open source? WPE is under no obligation to contribute source code or money. If WP is unhappy with the outcome, they should have released their product under a different license.
I'd argue there is a moral obligation to support open source projects if you rely on them as a cornerstone of your business. However it's not a legal one.
Open source is based on idealistic and community based mindset and modern tech is now based around extracting the dollars. The two aren't really compatible and it's really quite sad to see.
That being said this the most stupid way to go about it.
I'd argue there is an even greater moral obligation to honor what your contracts say and don't say, and thus keep your word. Doing what you say is pretty key to the concept of integrity, which outweighs Matt's driving desire for more money.
The moral obligation to not screw over a million innocent users also outweighs Matt's driving desire for more money.
I agree. If Matt was smart, he would have spent the last ten years maintaining his advantage rather than ignoring the problem. Now that he's backed into a corner and forced to get real nasty to survive, I can't believe how much tech people are falling over themselves to shill for the slimy salesman organization. Only tech is like this. Folks like union workers would lay down their lives before crossing a picket line. But the concept of solidarity is completely lost on tech workers. No one turns against their own like us.
How would you feel about Google if they used things like Linux and never contributed anything to open source? As the most profitable entity in the WordPress space, WPE has a duty to give something back. What Matt is asking for isn't unreasonable.
When Google contribute to open source, they often do it to scratch their own itch. That's how most open source organizations works.
What Automattic wants from WPE as laid outs in their term sheet is to dictate what WPE contributes and audit their accounting. Not exactly on the same playing field as other corporate contributions to open source projects. Not to mention the non-forking clause.
Maybe setting up a proper independent governance of the WordPress project would encourage more independent contributions.
I would hope Google would help out, but I would also realize that it's ultimately their own choice if the license allows them to use it without donating time/money.
I am very erratic on agreement with DHH's screeds, but this one hits the mark.
Among all the more visible issues with this whole situation, he calls out a few things that I think need more awareness:
1. Matt decries Private Equity as leeches and freeloaders on free software, open source, and their community.
2. Automattic invested in WPE in the early days. In fact, Silver Lake, the PE firm that owns WPE, bought Automattic's share! Automattic sold to PE.
3. The WP Foundation has three members, two of whom show any sign of activity: Matt himself, and another person that Matt personally appointed who is... drum roll... the Managing Partner of a Private Equity firm.
Somewhat ironic for someone who shit talks their competitors and Private Equity so vocally.
I understand this therapy is inherently more complex, but there are plenty of medical treatments that have helped millions of people without scaling like a drug: IVF, cognitive behavior therapy, casts for broken bones, etc.
Maybe I’m too optimistic but I’m sure the overall cost can be reduced dramatically over time even with individualization.
I'm not sure that I understand what you're saying.
These therapies are very individualized and will probably be very expensive.
How is CBT and casting a broken bone in any way like that? Those two things aren't reliant on medicine at all. Please explain, because I feel kind of stupid right now.
Is an encrypted messaging app really a social network? Of course there are groups on Telegram and social aspects, but 45 million users on a what is primarily a communication app isn’t the same as having 45 million users on Facebook.
The non-integer scaling on the Airs puts me off. I want perfect text rendering at a great resolution as that's well over 50% of the reason to get a MacBook. So it's the Pro for me
The panel resolution is fixed, so it'll have the same number of pixels on it regardless of what you "set the resolution to."
For maximum visual fidelity, it'd be ideal to scale to some power of 2. Apple's stock settings offer resolutions that ... don't always follow that rule.
Yes but the effective resolution of the 13 inch air when it is at 2x scaling is pretty cramped, which is why the default is to use blurrier fractional scaling.
