NO TRUE SCOTTSMAN!
Banzai51
joined 1 year ago
And you'll get the same story.
Libre office and Linux desktops are not line of business apps. They are platforms to run/supplement line of business apps. There are very few line of business apps that run HR, the finance department, EMR if you're in a hospital system, etc, etc, etc as open source or run on open source solutions. For decades Open Source advocates kept thinking it was the ability to run Office that shut down "The year of Linux desktops!!!" But that isn't it at all. It's those specialized apps that run the businesses that prevented it. I work in a hospital system, our line of business app is Epic or Cerner. Apps that digitize the health records. The requirements to run these apps is Windows Server, because that is what the front ends are built on. And these apps, especially the front ends, are heavy and complex. Any attempt to turn them into web apps has failed miserably because the performance just isn't there vs running say, the Epic/Cerner front end in a Citrix solution. Client-Server isn't dead, it just doesn't get sexy press anymore. Obviously if you work in web development, it is a very different story. But even in those shops, I'll bet the business support apps (HR, finance, etc) run heavily on Windows.
Lord knows I've tried to advocate for open source solutions where I can, but if the apps the business picks to suit their needs only runs in Windows? You're infrastructure has already been chosen for you. And THAT is what the average wannabe IT person on the internet doesn't understand in the slightest.
Because these access companies DO NOT COMPETE with each other. Without that competition we all get the shit end of capitalism. The landlines all have their own fiefdoms. Wireless is balkanizing based on tower placement, and satellite is for rural areas that don't rate wired connections or cell towers. The politicians can point to all this and say we have options, but really you're lucky if you have two options.
We did do something permanent: We let the private sector fuck us all in the ass while the rest of the world passed us by.
Then the brutal reality hits: Your app vendor, "We don't support that."
Those are the costs of doing business, and can be greatly exaggerated. And other counties produce profitable drugs even with price restrictions. We're so accustomed to price gouging, that we don't recognize it.
It's ok. 99% of the AI articles are about how AI is going to kill us all with the proof being the movie Terminator.
A TOS isn't legally binding.
When I was a broke teenager I pirated games. But back then there wasn't any online play (80s).
Now I primarily pirate movies and TV shows. And most of that is ripping DVDs and Blu-ray discs, which I still buy when I really like something. Then supplement with torrents.
But I've never debated the ethics. Was it Thoreau that said something that the effect of, if you engage in civil disobedience, even against unjust laws, you must be ready to accept the consequences.
I'm saying the last couple of years is an illusion. As soon as things get back to normal economically, the inequity will continue its march.
And yes, mid to post pandemic saw rising wages. 1 million+ died, 3.5-4 million retired. When the restrictions loosened up, what was the big problem? "No one wants to work!!!" Because a lot of people took those relief checks and retrained themselves. When the low wage jobs could go back to normal, most of those former low wage workers had already found other, higher paying jobs. Eventually even the most stubborn restaurants or retail jobs raised wages to compete. Remember everyone complaining that low skilled McDonald's workers making $15/hr? Or did you conveniently forget the last 4 years to argue with an idiot on the internet?
From my experience, the wireless carriers are trying their best not to launch in the same areas for home Internet. They're trying hard to avoid the competition like they do in phone service. Example: I get T-Mobile home Internet, but Verizon doesn't in my area. Asking friends, I'm finding that to be a common situation where one or the other is offered, but rarely both. Completely anecdotal, so take it with a grain of salt.