>If a population is too poor to support its municipal costs, the solution cannot be to let the suburb rot. There is no creative destruction option. If you let the suburb rot, all you’ll have is a more rotten suburb.
A rotten suburb is not a problem if nobody lives in it.
Reminds me of those who never forget to mention Mastodon in every thread about Twitter. They make me believe the Mastodon community is full of know-it-alls who pity us the peasants who are too stupid to leave Twitter.
It's free (unlike SMS or MMS) and back in the day it was the only service that worked reliably on all mobile platforms and didn't use PINs or usernames--just the phone numbers in your contact list so it was plug&play: just install it and you can talk to everybody.
>For more niche apps they ran promotions for students and independent developers giving away free phones etc.
I remember they were giving Lumia 925's to computer engineering students here years ago if they made and uploaded an app. You can imagine the quality of the apps they were uploading. Most of them were slideshows or just a wall of text.
That's not how you incentivise app developers, that's how you inflate your numbers.
Another way is: there are two options. Either we have strong anonimity on the Internet, or the authorities have the power to catch criminals. Which one do you think would win in a vote?
As someone who hasn't used CentOS much, when I've had to use it I've found the package selection (packages/versions) to be lacking, requiring me to use one of the countless 3rd party repos that may or may not contain what I need