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3D CAD software is light years behind in the open source ecosystem, but competing with Solid Works or Auto Desk is a enormous task... Although Blender seems to be catching up in 3D animation!
We pay roughly $7000 per year. If I want api access it cost additional $700 per year. It took them 9 months to transfer the licence when I bought the property.
Not completely on topic, but I fear we're rapidly losing many video games of yesteryear to time and their closed-source nature. Luckily, milestone games like Doom and Quake were open sourced some time ago. There's reverse engineering of some codebases like Rollercoaster Tycoon, Diablo, and Super Mario 64, but for 99% of games we'll never see them outside of the original release or an emulator.
[1]: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/06/13/square-enix-digi... [2]: https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1014845/sega-loses...
There were some other alternatives as well but I think GDS starved them to death before Google got bored and killed GDS. (Please le me know if there are good alternatives, free/paid/open source, everything is interesting as long as they fo the same things GDS did and can convince me that they don't upload my data.)
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This is my pet peeve. I'm already working in a relational language ( http://tablam.org ) to use as the core. My dream is to have not only an Access/Excel(in the role of pseudo-table programming) alternative, but one that could work great in a iPad/mobile device. Also, in this space, most "options" are fully on the cloud. Thats cool, but will never be a real challenger to Access or Excel if depend on cloud 100%. I nee…
I interviewed with a quant hedge fund in 2004 whose systems where all in FoxPro. They loved it. The general partner of the fund believed that Microsoft had figured out that they could unbundle FoxPro into 3+ components (DB, IDE, Reports...) and sell each separately. It's been a mystery to me why no one, using sqlite as the DB foundation, has attempted a modern-day FoxPro\MsAccess-like tool.
P.D: I think for a company like MS FoxPro was not a good business, but it could be very good for a smaller player. Fox have a decent market and was very loved by the community.
Uber/Seamless/Postmates/Airbnb or any other middleman service. There's no reason why they should be getting away with extracting 30-40% of the revenue for facilitating a simple transaction.
Doesn’t this ignore all the regulatory hurdles these companies have had to deal with to be able to be that middleman? Uber, for example, has done a whole lot of work, not all legal, to get cities to agree to let them operate. I suspect that a few kids in a garage trying to be the next Uber are going to end up stumped when cities tell them no (and they won’t have the lobbying power to make cities reconsider)
There's no reason why someone building an open solution couldn't work with the cities and get their endorsement.
Uber/Seamless/Postmates/Airbnb or any other middleman service. There's no reason why they should be getting away with extracting 30-40% of the revenue for facilitating a simple transaction.
And yet with taking 30-40% of revenue (as you claim) Uber is still running at a loss.
I also know a few people at food delivery companies and they all take around 35% of each order.
Dual pane file manager with GUI, in other words: a proper alternative to Total Commander on Linux. Fast, simple UI, has all required functionality built in and can be extended using plugins. Krusader is probably closest one, but still has few minor paper cut issues.
Semi joke. It is quite a nice file manager. Terminal based though. No plugins, but batteries included.