Well at least one possible reason is that for live events, the company that has an effective monopoly is Live Nation. And they also own at least one of the platforms where scalpers sell their tickets; Ticketmaster.
I also imagine that as an event promoter, being able to say some variation of "Another sold out show", or "Tickets sold out within seconds" creates pressure for buying early for all future events.
It also takes active planned work to implement these solutions. And if they have a monopoly, they have no incentive to do that work.
Are you by any chance talking about Mirage online (and it’s many other servers)?
I remember loving that game (or the Jerrath Online server anyways) and being amazed by it. I knew enough about computers to know it was programmed in VB 6, but not enough to actually code.
But the desire to eventually make something like it definitely had to do with my interest in coding later on.
I think the parent comment was referencing that, at least in the US, dentistry is treated differently in many ways. For example, it’s a different health insurance with its separe premiums and limits, and you’ll never find a dentist in a hospital; instead they have their own offices.
This really opened my eyes to some historical context I never thought of before.
My initial gut reaction was judgmental about the way billionaires spend their money; thinking it might involve some amount of hubris.
Then I realized I have no idea of how sculpture that are now show in museums as treasured historical art pieces were judge in the time they were created. Today we treasure them. But what did the general population think of them? I have no idea.
I imagine that at the time of their commissioning they were also paid by affluent people that could afford such luxuries. People that probably mirror today’s billionaires in influence and access. So what’s different about these?
I'm not sure on hard hiring numbers; but I imagine that since Ubisoft is a French company, they have a much larger presence in France than other large studios.
It depends. I suggest you first try to work at your desk with a tray on top or something that lets you try out switching between standing and sitting all the time. See if you’ll actually be switching between standing and sitting and enjoy it.
I have one. Bought it about 9 years ago. Thought it was so cool. After the first week I barely ever moved it to standing.
Fast forward to now. I have some pretty bad lower back pains that I do like standing frequently. Unfortunately the desk I have is motorized not manual; and it stopped working. So I now have a tray that I switch in and out during the day to sit and stand.
When I was young, the first profession I said I wanted to be was a Vet. I was obsessed with it. I loved all animals, but dogs the most. Still do.
Over the years of having my own pets at some point I realized I would be dealing with animals in their worst condition. Sick, injured, and suffering. I knew I would be bonding with animals I would rarely see and maybe even be responsible for putting them to sleep when the time came. I knew I definitely did not want to be a vet.
I know a few vets, and I know they have that same love for animals. I don’t know how they do it.
I was truly mind blown by how amazing those tools were in the browser. And so many different applications too!
Really impressive product! I can’t imagine it was easy trying to find a profitable market with the competition you had. But it was an infinitely useful suite and a technical marvel.
I'm not affiliated with them, but I recall this being marketed at some point as giving you the flexibility and customization powers that the Googles and Facebooks of the world have with their on-prem infrastructure without needing to have as deep of a dedicated staff as they do to just this which allowed them to develop all their custom tooling in the first place.
Basically if you are on-prem, and you are dissatisfied with what you are getting out of today's onprem sellers. Things like bad firmware with slow update cycles, issues with rack/power supplies/cabling/interconnecting systems. Closed down systems that don't allow much customization, etc. They are open sourcing a lot of their work along the way
Again, I'm not affiliated with them, and my info may be outdated so take it with a grain of salt. But that's how I've seen them for some time.
This reaction from the owner of the Godot forums really reinforces my frequent realization of what a miracle it is that any large open source project exists, and how hard it is to try to get any monetary compensation from open source.
Some key members of the Godot project attempted to commercially monetize their future efforts in a way that will likely benefit the community at large. Unfortunately some parts of the community believe this is either a betrayal or that they should also be compensated equally without being part of the same commercialization efforts they are taking on. Both of these groups are providing value to the community, and one group attempted a way to get compensated.
When I started programming and learned about open source, I greatly benefited from it and hoped that one day I’d give back. But the reality is that unless you are prepared to sacrifice your free time for thankless work, you should reconsider.
Unfortunately things cost money, and the way to pay for things is to get paid for spending time working. And that time and mental bandwidth competes with open source. You’ll be doing the same type of work that you could be paid for if you were doing it for a company. But you aren’t. It’s just as hard work as the work done in the time people sacrifice in exchange for a salary, but you won’t get monetary value out of it. And you are opening up yourself to criticisms and demands and stresses to the same level or higher as if you were under employment and as if you were compensated for it. But you aren’t. It’s thankless work for which if you are expecting compensation you are likely to be disappointed. And if you find a possible way which could allow you to contribute to the community leveraging your past experience, but the work is no longer free or shared with the community you’ll be criticized for it.
Anyways, long winded way of me saying; it’s a miracle open source projects exists. And it’s also a miracle that people can dedicate their time to manage communities around them. They are both valuable, and they should both be done with the realistic expectations of getting nothing back in return. But I’ll give my thanks to those that do it.