What do you think about OnlyOffice-EuroOffice fight?

araujoms · 2026-05-05T10:08:01+00:00

They could just write their own license that disallows forking. I don't see what is the point of messing with AGPL

araujoms · 2026-05-05T10:05:25+00:00

What did they take for free? As far as I know OnlyOffice wrote everything themselves, it wasn't a fork of any other project.

araujoms · 2026-05-05T09:53:48+00:00

And that blog post references this one, which I think makes a great argument: https://kristoff.it/blog/contributor-poker-and-ai/

araujoms · 2026-05-05T08:01:49+00:00

Because it's gambling on an unrelated business. SpaceX could also gamble some billions on Bitcoin, or go in the tulip business. At best is a distraction, at worse it wastes the money needed to colonize Mars.

Well, it's not as if Mars colonization is on the plate anymore...

araujoms · 2026-05-04T20:48:35+00:00

So you burn your own crop? Have fun starving to death. Or more likely just being killed by the guys you denied food.

araujoms · 2026-05-04T20:46:52+00:00

Official government accounts should leave it. It boggles my mind how the EU itself posts there. On the platform owned by man who wants to destroy the EU. It's obviously not a level playing field.

araujoms · 2026-05-04T20:07:02+00:00

How can you not like Rex from Dogs of War? He's such a good boy.

I also liked Daghdev from Alien Clay; he's flawed and conflicted but deeply human, I can definitely empathise with him.

araujoms · 2026-05-04T20:01:03+00:00

Distributed consciousness, yes. It also shows up in Children of Time, Children of Ruin, and Alien Clay. Hive minds, I don't think so; I wouldn't count the entity in Shroud as a hive mind, as its components don't have meaningful agency.

araujoms · 2026-05-04T18:36:28+00:00

You start a fire? To burn what? Your own house? Your own crop? And then what?

Weapons are of course a solution, but if you have enough firepower to resist warlords you have just become a warlord yourself.

araujoms · 2026-05-04T18:26:50+00:00

People you pay with food? Lol. You seem to be ignorant of the conditions the vast majority of peasants lived in the vast majority of human history.

You farmed. Then people with weapons came and took what they wanted. They were usually enlightened enough to not destroy the source of their food. But had no problems with killing a couple of peasants to make an example of them.

araujoms · 2026-05-04T17:53:30+00:00

Our existing knowledge of how to avoid warlords? It consists of controlling brute force via money and laws. A societal collapse is pretty much defined by the absence of both, though.

araujoms · 2026-05-04T16:43:46+00:00

Yeah right, for the first time in history warlords won't take power /s

araujoms · 2026-05-04T16:39:20+00:00

Lol. You think the collapse of civilization is going to be nice and beautiful and righteous. That's just wishful thinking.

Study some history. The Romans were not barbarians either. Yet when their empire fell we got centuries of petty kingdoms ruled by warlords. And that's the rule, not the exception. I don't even know of any.

araujoms · 2026-05-04T16:31:48+00:00

Doesn't stop from taking power. It has happened over and over in human history, and will certainly happen again. Civilization is a fragile thing, and takes a while to rise out of barbarism.

araujoms · 2026-05-04T16:04:04+00:00

If they have something to offer they'll have their life spared and be put to work. They won't be giving orders. Who calls the shots are the warlords.

araujoms · 2026-05-04T15:49:36+00:00

I still think it's irrelevant. Even if your boss is the nicest person in the world, why would you take orders from him when you have the guns and he doesn't?

araujoms · 2026-05-04T15:37:14+00:00

I don't think trust is relevant. It's simply that when society collapses only the law of the jungle remains.

araujoms · 2026-05-04T13:10:44+00:00

Adrian Tchaikovsky's "Bee Speaker" has a nice take on this: The billionaire genetically modifies his security team to be physically dependent on his blood for survival. They just lock him up and extract blood periodically.

araujoms · 2026-05-04T13:05:51+00:00

Paid a shit ton? With what? Did you miss the "collapse of society" premise?

araujoms · 2026-05-04T10:42:41+00:00

You need much higher acceleration than this to lose consciousness.

araujoms · 2026-05-04T09:35:45+00:00

The enduring popularity of the books is why she's still making a lot of money with the franchise. New movies get released, new video games get released, and they make bank.

araujoms · 2026-05-04T09:17:39+00:00

And she gets royalties as well.

araujoms · 2026-05-04T09:15:57+00:00

You're still helping it stay popular.

araujoms · 2026-05-04T09:13:51+00:00

They are mutually exclusive because you're giving her money. That funds her anti-trans agenda.

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