Oh no! “not contributing back” for free software managed by a profit driven company.
Automattic’s actions have proven exactly why WPEngine shouldn’t pay them squat.
deegeese
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What are the differences in those sites’ governance which would immunize them from a similar legal attack by the BJP?
They probably don’t have half the legal staff of Wikipedia.
There’s no cloud, just someone else’s (underspecced) computer.
This would have a lot more weight coming from a human rights organization than from genocide lobbyists.
“Aims to support Israel” is all I need to hear to shut my ears.
They’re getting big mad that they’re being called out for genocide. Cry harder.
AI summaries of larger bodies of text work pretty well so long as the source text itself is not slop.
Predictive text entry is a handy time saver so long as a human stays in the driver’s seat.
Neither of these justify current levels of hype.
That also goes to show why to not waste 3 days to shave 2 seconds off a program that gets run once a week.
This is the publisher punishing researchers for their own market failure.
If the software is not legally available in Egypt at a price affordable to academics, they should pirate it and publish in a journal that’s not part of this exploitative racket.
This post would really benefit from a little more background information before diving into the breathless appeal for help.
So what’s wrong with “straight” ?
I’m straight too so I’m having a hard time understanding. Why do you and that guy feel the need to make yourselves victims of an imagined atrocity?
Oh joy, moralizing from a dry drunk.