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.

Astroturfing your own relevance has got to be easier than planning a noteworthy murder.

Nah, vast majority of murders are not noteworthy and the killer has no article.

When Indians want to chat online, I don’t think they’ll speak English with other Indians.

American culture has and likely always will dominate any general audience English speaking online community. It’s just a matter of population.

I never missed a US instance because LW is so US focused I assumed it was the main one.

We don’t need a US instance, we need more users to support active local communities.

You can’t give away free software as open source and then start demanding royalties. Fuck Matt Mullenweg.

It’s a clbuttic mistake.

How do you think he got HIV? Too much magic johnson.

But people are constantly buying millions of both, so makes sense to have small yearly updates and major revisions every few years.

Which is basically how both phones and cars are developed now.

If he’s going to use the next one for 12 years he definitely cares about picking a good one.

inco…ntinent?

I didn’t think he was that old.

This reads like “they only sell hamburgers at the grocery store, and they don’t sell veggie burgers at the hippie food store because they aren’t vegan”

I think veganism is dumb but this is so much stupider.

Most of that interview is deadly dull and there’s no way I would have read to the end.

Very nice of Intuit to highlight the juicy parts.

Just give the direct link

https://www.wheresyoured.at/oai-business/

If Microsoft is expected to keep shoveling money into a bottomless pit, the bottomless pit is expected to keep producing temporary gains to the donor’s stock price.

Turns out the only people willing to pay for AI are other tech investors.

No hablo portugués pero entendí unos de esos palabras. Creo que tendrás más suerte si nos preguntaste en inglés.

Just Qualcomm showing their customary hostility to developers.

They’re resentful they had to produce dev kits in the first place, so delayed them until after other companies produced retail products.