Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 20/12/2024
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Haha that's great!
They have talked a bit about what they are trying to do. It's backed by Silicon Valley billionaire Eron Wolf, and he has talked about his frustration with everyone putting their blood, sweat, and tears into the software and then someone like Facebook comes along and makes billions from the work of others.
I get it's frustrating, but personally I think it fails to see that Facebook is part of the ecosystem, but also so are many small companies, and many of these are contributing back to the software. If you remove the companies then you have removed a significant source of help. Eron wants to replace this with an expectation that people pay for their software, he wants to normalise paying for OSS so OSS doesn't have to rely on the companies. You can see this in how FUTO keyboard using language implying you need to pay to get a license, but also it holds no features back from you and doesn't nag if you don't pay.
Personally I welcome new ways of thinking but even if the pay for your OSS thing works I think companies are uniquely placed to contribute in ways that a small team relying on purchases is never going to be able to replicate.
I don't hold any ill will though, I think their heart is in the right place, albeit having missed what makes FOSS special.
I watched the launch coverage this morning after I woke up. Do other companies do funny things like checking in with the north pole on the preflight checks or is RocketLab a bit unique like that?
Do guinea pigs burrow themselves? They seem like the kind of animal that would, so I found it interested that you dug tunnels for them.
Haha yeah I do find the licence a bit weird. Kind of a non-commercial licence but there are definitely some parts that I don't quite get.
I have seen Eron Wolf talking a bit about what he is trying to do. I get his frustrations, but am not convinced their licence helps with those at all. You can't really take open source, take away some freedoms that are sometimes taken advantage of, and pretend that removing those freedoms didn't remove the benefits that are the reason those freedoms existed in the first place.
Typically licenses not OSI approved are referred to as "Source available" rather than "Open source". This is one reason FUTO (who make Grayjay) refer to their license as "Source first" and not "Open Source" (though they did call it that for a while before clarifying and switching to the new term).
I think at some point you would just be in a routine and expect that routine to stay for the rest of your life, whether that's 3 or 30 years. Probably not a lot of planning to do at age 80, especially if you've already made it into a rest home, though someone will probably prove me wrong on that.
Ah OK, so good chance of being next year then.
Rescheduled for tomorrow morning but it's still 3am 😆. I struggle to stay up to midnight these days!
I just saw the announcement of Home Assistant's "Voice Preview", an open source alexa/google home/siri, and have ordered one on a whim.
For years I was following Mycroft which I was hopeful for but they had so many issues I never had confidence to put my money into it. Then they finally had a preorder of their product and it was like $200USD, and then eventually they folded. I have much more faith in Home Assistant delivering considering all their work on voice so far, and also it's a real product already ready to order and costs $59USD. So I ordered one on a whim.
It's called "Preview" because they don't think the experience is ready for the average home yet, better for early adopters and tinkerers. I am more than happy to tinker so I have taken the dive and am keen to see how good it is.
It took me so long to work out when Black Friday was because I started getting the emails in October saying their black Friday sale was on.
I luckily haven't had any boxing day sales emails yet. I guess they start as soon as they can't guarantee delivery before Christmas?
Most people who have worked in customer service would believe every word because they have seen the absurdity of real people.
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Dave
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Ah interesting!