I believe OpenStack Swift in particular is known to work well in some large organizations [1], NVIDIA is one of those and also invested in its maintenance [2].
Now... this is certainly great, especially given the particular selection of projects receiving the donations. I've upvoted the article and hopefully more companies (aka open source consumers) will do the same.
But then I wonder, what is that the community would benefit most from? Money or actual code contributions?
I develop open source software and I get paid for doing it, which is a great luxury. Go DDG, raise the bar even further, employ people working on these projects if you don't have any already and even release more software!
hi, no I haven't A/B tested those but I'm sure the videos sound very good. The hifi equipment is probably far more important than the quality issues of a 192AAC vs the CD.
Yet, I think you're looking at it from the wrong perspective, let me give you an argument.
Keeping the sound of good quality while lowering the bandwidth is an issue; the 192bit AAC is a great achievement in that regard.
Recording and reproducing music with highest quality is another; the CD itself is not entirely lossless in this context.
So I just think for a music streaming service it would be nice to not diminish the music quality at the source of reproducing chain.
> Additionally, both baremetal and OpenStack Ironic have a focus on 'triple-O', or OpenStack on OpenStack[2] use cases
Well, I'm sure they have issues but what gave you the impression they are focused on TripleO use cases?
As a TripleO dev I just use them.
Compared to more 'standalone' softwares like MAAS, these tools are integrated already into OpenStack, allowing you to deploy images on either virtual instances or baremetal without adding more software layers in charge of the images hosting, authentication, dhcp management and what not.
I think maximizing profit is what corporations do by definition. I agree with the poster something is changed at Gogle after Larry Page took over though.
Yet in the process of "making my opinion about a corp being evil or not" I enjoy measuring the amount and the quality of free software they release. For software corp, I think this is a good parameter.
By this metric it is easy to understand that putting too much hopes into Google is wrong. They release a lot of code, but that code is usually only "a path" for the user to their core products (which they do not release).
I encourage you rediscover those corps instead where people work hard to keep their "don't be evil" going, despite not marketing it that much.
Let me add something, maybe I'm not good enough for Google, but I'm employed by Red Hat and I enjoy what we do at Red Hat. And I could name a lot of others, in this context, doing great things.
I enjoyed the post but there is one sentence I can't understand:
> 2/ Only surround yourself with brilliant and positive people. Negative and mediocre people are everywhere and their influence on you can be devastating.
The thing is that I'm potentially one of those "mediocre" people and I don't see why my influence should be devastating.
For instance, what is wrong about being negative? Not that my days are about it but, when I find myself thinking about the society we've built, I feel depressed and helplessness. Our society runs on poverty, climate change, INC governments, wars. We got to a point where some perpetuate violence on people and animals for living.
Not only that but from a certain perspective, I've a reason to think about myself as a mediocre person, cause I managed to get lot of good things from life, including a fun job but I'm not the "cool kid" and, as such, I think I'm quite a mediocre guy.
So my question is as follows, what are you suggesting here: the best way to avoid any negativity get to you, is to eliminate these gloomy people from your life ?
sure it is better than doing nothing, except in my perception HN isn't a place for average non-tech guys so I get bored by this kind of posts
About me, I'm planning (and practicing) not to release any non-free code and also looking for alternatives to a few web apps which I'm still unable to replace (as per first post). That would be a much nicer topic to discuss for me.
Installing gnu/linux, no really. Again that is 20years old story.
indeed that is what in these days I would consider interesting and eventually title "Returning to Free Software" ... have you got experiences to share on the matter?
And speaking about practical solutions, I know of identi.ca and libre.fm , do you know of others?
yes, not only that but I'm getting bored by people pretending they're doing anything good just because they've (finally) realized that using non-free software suffers from collaterals
I'm bored by people pretending they've gone free just because they managed to replace OSX with some exotic gnu/linux distro (and with exotic I mean whatever which isn't mainstream)
And I'm bored by people upvothing posts like this
And I know someone will tell is me who is wrong (and boring) but listen, that is just your opinion, as this is mine. One thing isn't opinionable though, svbtle isn't free, so this post really isn't a good one, for me
And if your story is about "how you reinstalled some random gnu/linux", well that is a 20 years old story; what is an hacker (news reader) interested in? the .Xmodmap settings?
The fight for freedom today seems to me to have been moved for the great part somewhere else, on the webapps. How about we "return to freedom" by debating on how we get rid of all these non-free web applications?
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1DunJM1zoc 2. https://platform.swiftstack.com/docs/