they band lawyers from Germany already... I would strictly ban them from the European market. I mean why should an us company manage office stuff in a cloud from eu people.
Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal
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Re: Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal
#102As I hear stories of Apple, Google, and Microsoft revoking valuable access, I remember this article... "Don’t build your castle in other people’s kingdoms." https://howtomarketagame.com/2021/11/01/dont-build-your-cast...
In this day and age, it is almost impossible for certain businesses not to build on someone's else kingdom. Facebook, instagram, uber, lyft, doordash, instacart, and hundreds of unicorn businesses are literally built on top of ecosystems that are controlled by 2 or 3 companies.
> In this day and age, it is almost impossible for certain businesses not to build on someone's else kingdom.
No it is not. It is only the greed for bigger profits. If a company can work with Microsoft, it can also work with LibreOffice. But LibreOffice doesn't promise them the moon, while sucking every cent out of them.
Re: Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal
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The key insight is that mitigating risk isn’t a free action. No business has the bandwidth to avoid even most of the risks they could in principle avoid; you allocate some effort towards the ones that make sense to mitigate, and hope the others don’t come to pass.
But relying on other people's kingdom isn't free either, that comes with a cost. The fallacy I hear often is that because something like AWS is sooo much more expensive than co-location or VPS, that it must be easier. Yeah, it can be... sometimes. It almost never is. You trade off the complexity for new complexity. You replace your sysadmins with Dev Ops. It's not like it just magically gets better. It's the same way…
> But relying on other people's kingdom isn't free either, that comes with a cost.
Yes, but as long as you can blame it on somebody else, it is fine. /s
Re: Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal
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But relying on other people's kingdom isn't free either, that comes with a cost. The fallacy I hear often is that because something like AWS is sooo much more expensive than co-location or VPS, that it must be easier. Yeah, it can be... sometimes. It almost never is. You trade off the complexity for new complexity. You replace your sysadmins with Dev Ops. It's not like it just magically gets better. It's the same way…
> But relying on other people's kingdom isn't free either I know it sounds trite, but looking at what I'm responding to, it is not possible to not rely on others for anything but the most basic things where input(s), tool(s), action(s), and output(s) don't require anyone else. You need infrastructure, services, tools, materials provided by others for almost everything. We are a highly networked species, and building…
Right, but theres levels of vendor lock in. Going up to more lock in doesn't necessarily mean an easier experience, that's what I'm trying to point out. So you have to do the risk analysis.
The fallacy I'm trying to point out is that if you outsource some functionality to locked in vendor implementation, then your life is easier. It can be, but Its often not.
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Can't really say I agree after being quite pleased with Biden's admin—would have been more than happy with the sequel. I clearly don't see the same thing you see in this guy but at least someone is happy and optimistic about it. A center left Democrat reaching across the isle so hard it pissed off her own base and with a platform of not rocking the boat sounds way better than whatever this mess is.
I hear exactly what you are saying. I voted for Biden and Clinton before. The country went insane from 2020 thru 24 and the concealing of Biden’s decline was atrocious. For me the left just went to far. I have 2 white heterosexual sons and I could not vote for a party that declared them an enemy. Everything else was downstream of that for me. Ill vote for the bad guy before I vote for that. Trump has actually surpris…
Your opinion is unpopular among a very vocal class, but is also very widely shared. There has been an incredible shift rightward by Gen Z males, and specifically, Gen Z white males.
When you consistently deride and undermine a demographic, they see what you’re doing, and don’t like you very much for doing it.
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I hear exactly what you are saying. I voted for Biden and Clinton before. The country went insane from 2020 thru 24 and the concealing of Biden’s decline was atrocious. For me the left just went to far. I have 2 white heterosexual sons and I could not vote for a party that declared them an enemy. Everything else was downstream of that for me. Ill vote for the bad guy before I vote for that. Trump has actually surpris…
Your opinion is unpopular among a very vocal class, but is also very widely shared. There has been an incredible shift rightward by Gen Z males, and specifically, Gen Z white males. When you consistently deride and undermine a demographic, they see what you’re doing, and don’t like you very much for doing it.
Its my opinion that Trump was just the warmup for the rightward shift.
Vance or Desantis is going to be next and will be far to the right of Trump.
Desantis' 2nd term was the first time I ever voted R in my life. I'm in my mid 40's.
I've always been a Dem and was right up until Biden's term. I've never seen anything like it. Maybe I was just blind to the creep before that. First time I noticed it was the DEI training at work. I did not like that at all. I'll never vote Dem again, the risk to my kids is just to great. So to the right we will go.