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Cake day: December 9th, 2023

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  • Well the thing about the future is sometimes the thing that always happens doesn’t, or sometimes the thing that “won’t happen” suddenly does.

    I understand the cynicism and I don’t think anything will radically change overnight, but we are CLEARLY in a new status quo, you will start to see serious uptick in linux users, for a million different reasons.


  • I don’t think most of the software industry is functional at this point for the workers actually in the industry so that feels like a loaded question.

    Nothing is working to the degree it needs to, but there are TONS of decade heck even two decade old still in development open soure games and projects… and yes I find those projects far more sustainable along almost every metric than huge AAA gaming or software companies run by people who pay their employees shit and treat them as utterly disposable once their passion has been strip mined out leaving only burnout.

    Compare the shitshow that is ESRI / Arcgis to QGIS that destroys ESRI products in effectiveness and clarity as a tool for most common GIS functions as only one example.

    All that being said I am not happy with the state of things, everything will be better if we more thoroughly and directly support the actual developers doing the work with money, I am still arguing for that.