Insisting on homegrown platforms is starting to work out extremely well for China. Could be argued that France just hasn't gone anywhere near hard enough on that front and the government needs to seriously play the role of national tech incubator as China does
It's cultural and power related. SV aready thinks it has 'droit du seigneur' over everybody in the world's data; no surprise to see entitled power dynamics leak into the workplace.
China has demonstrated the feasibility of simply blocking FB (and many others) and substituting social networking platforms under national control.
That control may include blatant political suppression or surveillance or slightly more subtle 'nudge' type stuff of course (just as FB et all openly do for marketing clients with targeted advertising and so on).
It stands to reason that some governments will offer FB the opportunity to be allowed to operate - if they subcontract that function on behalf of the gov. (There is a growing market of social platforms if FB don't want to play, and we all know that for FB ubiquity is everything in any case. So plenty of leverage and mutual interest.)
If you work for a social platform this is the name of the game so you'd need to be ok with it.
What did I just read? All parties here sound vilely self-centred, feebly passive aggressive, and neurotic. If somebody is that bothersome, the usual courses of action are to either avoid them completely or give them a thump, not suffer and whine.
They were a late and poor response to the surprisingly effective Kremlin troll factories that have been astroturfing wildly for Trump (and Brexit and Ukraine and across Europe)
I agree with you but also think there's a lot to that article and it shouldn't be casually dismissed. It's a genuine perspective that exists regardless of whether it's fully justified and the author addresses that. I think you'll find it in many Western countries as globalisation starts to normalise incomes - the rural areas with the kind of employers that are first to go to Asia are the least insulated and at the sharp end. Whether global incomes rise sufficiently for some kind of Western comfort level by the time that hits white collar city jobs remains to be seen.
seriously Django and Wagtail? The key challenge any open source platform finds with corporate adoption is support/maintenance and that is largely answered by longevity, size of community and adoption, as well as large Ubuntu or Redhat style private companies behind it offering SLA's, professional services and so on. This is where Drupal and Wordpress shine.
> (1) old, unfocused open-source platforms which are tired and broken, or (2) new, amazing publishing systems which are completely proprietary and closed
Nothing against Ghost, but I've spent about a decade in the area of content management and publishing and don't recognise 1 or 2. The proprietary market leader is AEM which is atrocious to actually implement once you get past their sales demos, and in open source you have Drupal which is a well proven solution for large and small scale publishing, particularly relevant with Drupal 8 and its publishing focused distro Thunder (both particularly adept at services and deployment, tricky areas in publishing)
> The Cloud is about businesses focusing on core business and not supporting functions
Yep, it inevitably trends towards commodity infrastructure. As such it will require regulation (and eventually even some form of nationalisation in some cases)
Developers aren't the sole creators in software that people use. Everybody active is a builder, whether it's underlying software or the user and economic parts of the ecosystem. The development part is often easier precisely because it is easier to define