Managing his own companies with copies of ideas hasn't gone very well for him AFA I remember, acquiring companies that are good in their field and not ruining them has been a talent compared to other Techs.
Whether your virtual container is lightweight, heavyweight or from the cloud doesn't really change anything from a regular user's perspective. You aren't installing software in the main environment you are looking at, running a desktop on, etc.
It's an event but one to put off for later.. Something good enough for right now where there's not much planning, anticipation or potential buyer's remorse is the kind of thing that is routine to do instead of consider.
Ah yes, think of the children is always a good way to defend a country of laws from becoming a defensless emotional wreck that has a future worthy of no child.
A drug dealer who pays his taxes has committed less crimes than one who doesn't unless the IRS reports income to the DEA, then tax savings are a benefit of drug dealing as filing taxes becomes a violation of the 5th amendment.
I don't get your argument. Those companies provide overpriced crap to go along with domain specific code that is either open source or written by a more specialized company. If companies suddenly had to make intelligent choices and people would get fired for buying IBM, a bunch if companies would show up with better integrations than these since worse just isn't possible.
If a rush to get anything non-US were the priority the market of converting Chinese solutions would already deliver better solutions.. US tech (of this office sort) looks a lot like US steel plants a couple decades after other nations built replacements, that's why it is comical that Europe is not only using it but often using the very worst of it.
I apreciate getting an explanation for the Belgian Comics. Lua and Brazil seems like a fascinating one to me too. Financially independent clouds seems very straight forward but I'm not sure what the regulatory environment would look like to have whole different programming language ecosystems emerging.
Having a control group in a life saving intervention study is a major ethical dilemma that isn't as simple as they would die if not in the study.. There's a lot of information about study ethics and it is more complex a subject than you imply.
It would be very short sighted of the auto industry to criticize an insecure car to car protocol when that is a thing they want to implement with exactly the same security budget.
It needs local proximity RF which was probably considered an out of scope risk in the initial design but is more and more likely to be available by accident as newer RF devices have more defined by software.
It seems to me like a Christian who really thought about it could realize the philosophy of God in advance and then his mysterious ways might require less tragedy.
I think the political spectrum is dangerous because people expect the Paradox of Tolerance and similar correlations to silence the left in places where the right will happily speak.