Hawke

I like the way you write, FWIW.

Han shot ~~first~~.

FTFY

Last time I went round with someone on this, they insisted that this is just normal business procedure to order product on credit.

To me, while trade credit is definitely a thing, for orders this large I expect there’s some more substantial backing for it.

Ultimately it probably fits in somewhere on a chart of financial shenanigans like this one:

I think it’s more like “we need 6 million chips for this year, and we’ll pay you eventually, maybe”.

But yeah the outcome is the same.

Yeah but symptoms are what kill the patient.

Yeah but no one wants to deal with that “as long as they’re within the rules” for you.

Rules and strategy are very separate things when teaching.

Got an explanation for that in English?

It seems to predate the Nazis by a large margin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_gustibus_non_est_disputandum via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suum_cuique )

I don’t think it’s a coherent goal of torpedoing a direct competitor but the way the sloppers seem to do things is a lot of “just trust me bro, use AI for everything”. No actual thought given to anything, especially guidance in how to go about using it.

In that regard, any decently-engineered software is competition to them. And therefore “break everything so LLMs are the only tool” seems to be the strategy they’ve chosen.

The other less-malicious possibility is that they use those tools and want to submit patches, but of course they’re eating their own dog shit so no one wants it. So they try to hide it.

Plenty of better reasons to alter UK foreign policy. Starting with “Brexit was a mistake and caused by Russian interference”.

Yeah but the main reason for all those copyright law differences comes down to “greed, money, and control” as the other replies explain.

That’s complete bullshit:

Software I’ve written is owned by me.

Open-source licenses (F/LOSS) mostly cannot be revoked.

Public domain exists.

…never?

ETA can mean “edited to add”