Just do yourself a favor and stick with using what already works. Don't upgrade to the new shiny thing unless you already know the reasons why you want to.
Among all the other technical issues, Wayland devs have an attitude issue. Users asked for fractional scaling for years and were faced with flat refusals and insulting quips from the wayland developers. The only reason they've added it now is because Valve asked them for it. Wayland devs think users are worms and corporations are gods.
You're comparing the cheap end of scooters to the expensive end of smartphones. The cheapest smartphones cost about 10x than the cheapest scooters. Tens of dollars (if not free) vs a few hundred dollars.
> Many people miss the larger point that the scooter troubles have brought to light: this is a preview to what a post-ownership society would look like. It quickly becomes a tragedy of the commons when everyone uses public resources (rentable scooters and the space to park them) with little regard to the larger impact of their collective actions due to the absence of consequences for antisocial behavior.
There is more going on here. Compare the condition of subways or buses in American cities, to those in Japan. In some cultures, collective property is rapidly vandalized and destroyed by the same people who rely on it. In other cultures, collective property is treated respectfully.
How do you explain Germany having stringent drivers licensing requirements, and Germans being skilled and generally lawful drives? Just a coincidence? Do you think Germans would be just as good at driving if they dropped all the licensing and education requirements? Seems farcical.
Since advanced education and licensing requirement work for German car drivers, it should work for e-scooter and e-bike riders too. And for that matter, it should also work for American/etc car drivers too. If drivers' ed and the licensing tests for car driving in America weren't such a farce, our roads would be much safer.
What is the point of these being scooters instead of bikes in the first place? Scooters seem strictly inferior and more dangerous than bicycles. The small wheels are much worse on dodgy road surfaces, and without being able to pinch the vehicle between your legs, the rider has less control over what it does.
Is the whole idea that a scooter is cheaper because it has less structure and smaller wheels? Seems like a bad tradeoff, since it's a vehicle that can get you killed (I've seen this happen. The scooter rider got into an unrecoverable wobble, fell, and hit his head.)
Look at what other similar projects have been doing, and if it's been working out well enough for them. And if you are the sole copyright owner, you're not locked into your choice. You can either refuse community contributions or make them sign over the copyright to you. Then you're free to distribute your software under another license going further.
Proprietary software doesn't save you from having to make decisions like this. Proprietary software can be licenced under many different terms. Are you going to sell perpetual per-seat licenses? Subscriptions? Selling updates? Support contracts? Avoiding future regret is always going to be a speculative affair.
I don't think the nitty gritty details of the AGPLv3 matter much in practice. Those details matter most to the sort of organizations that fear lawsuits and consult with lawyers, and such organizations will likely not use AGPLv3 licensed code at all.
AGPLv3 is thus a de facto 'hobbyists only' license, and hobbyists by in large don't go around suing each other; generally they just make good faith efforts to respect each others licenses and maybe use social ostracism when somebody steps over the line. Since hobbyists don't take their community disputes to court, the technical legal minutia of the license doesn't matter to most of them.
> But still, I think the permissive license we picked was the better choice. Especially after our company was formed and we want to use the project for ourself too the (A)GPL would make the community working together with this harder (CLA, dual licensing?)
Regardless of license, most software projects are either community projects, or corporate projects, but not both. Corporations rarely see fit to invest in the development of a project they're using because some other chump is giving it away for free. And volunteer programmers rarely want to deal with submitting commits to a project with corporate managers who are focused on the needs of the organization and see volunteer programmers as out-of-the-loop nuisances.
Whether you're a corporation open sourcing something to get free community labor, or a volunteer open sourcing something to get corporations to contribute, you'll probably be disappointed.
Simply hiding your source does not lead to success either. Anybody can hide their source, but only some people succeed in starting software businesses.
I don't think anybody claimed "simply releasing your source to the public [will] lead to monetary success"
Nothing rude about it, it's the way I prefer burgers. I've never considered restaurant burger special or 'pop'ish, mostly just convenient. I do put lots of raw onions on the burger though, the refreshing crunch of freshly sliced onion goes well with the greasy meat. Restaurant burgers rarely have much onion, and when they do it's usually cooked or limp and sad. A lot of restaurant burgers go heavy on lettuce instead, but lettuce is bland compared to onions.
They have a niche product that requires a lot of up-front investment; getting it cheaper than mass produced beef is a pipe dream. They're out to make money from price-insensitive vegetarians, which means prices will stay high. The only way this will change is with some sort of government action to raise the price of beef for consumers, but that isn't going to happen because this is a democracy; beef is popular and veggie burgers are a niche product. Even vegetarian dictators don't expend their finite political capital on issues like this.
Ngl I don't even know what seasoning I would put on a burger patty. A burger patty to me is just a disc of ground beef, I don't expect anything else from it.
I've never seen anything wrong with grocery store patties. I think the problem with fast food burgers is the bad bread, weird sauces, missing/sparse toppings, and most of all the sloppy half-assed construction. If you make the burger at home with the same patty, it will almost certainly come out much better.
I once accidentally ordered a veggie burger. It was called a "garden burger" on the menu and I naively assumed it was a regular burger with vegetables on it. When I got it I immediately recognized my error, but ate it anyway and it was fine. Not what I wanted, but wholly inoffensive.
Years later I tried an impossible whopper, and unlike the veggie burger it was actually vile. The taste and texture were bizarre, not like meat but neither like vegetable. It tasted like something that came out of a chemistry lab, not a kitchen.
Elsewhere in this thread I see people suggesting that real meat be taxed, or subsidies removed, or some other form of government action to twist people's arms into eating a meat substitute. My advise to those commenters is this: Do it with traditional veggie patties and the general public might forgive you. Do it with these new wave of psuedo-meats and it will make people hate vegans with 10x more passion than they already do.
Among all the other technical issues, Wayland devs have an attitude issue. Users asked for fractional scaling for years and were faced with flat refusals and insulting quips from the wayland developers. The only reason they've added it now is because Valve asked them for it. Wayland devs think users are worms and corporations are gods.