Let's assume they aren't correct - is the massive cost DOGE is incurring to taxpayers while destroying essential government services and weakening our national security a good thing?
That's not it! Direct engineering effort towards new features that will drive new customers and markets. Functionality is unimportant. Haven't you ever worked in enterprise software?
Yes, but the cat is out of the bag now. Welcome to the era of every piece of creative work coming with an EULA that you cannot train on it. It will be like clearing samples.
Many already did this years ago for game resources on iClone, Unity, and UE.
There are also a lot of usage rules that now make many games unfeasible.
We dug into the private markets seeking less Faustian terms, but found just as many legal submarines in wait... "AI" Plagiarism driven projects are just late to the party. =3
I have been on the other side of this where engineers end up just being a technical support team, and are competed over to directly support accounts, and then there ends up being a plethora of hot fixes and custom solutions per customer. There is a ton of technical debt, because non of this stuff is tested properly and there are regressions all over the place. The whole thing goes under after a competitor, with their properly invested engineering resources makes a better and fully featured product than you.
To me, this screams a real failure of product management. They can't communicate the needs of their customer to their engineers or push back against them? Having engineers take sales calls is not going to scale when you have an actually mature base of customers.
If this product manager really wants Engineers to take sales calls, the Engineers need to earn part of the commission on the accounts. That is the only fair way to do this. I would never take a sales call without part of my compensation being commissions based.
See, that's the issue. I want my distribution to distribute the dependencies I need to run applications outside of containers. That's, like, it's main job man.
Not working with datasets. Binary files aren't that large, and these tools are generally bad for my use case - because I am not concerned about datasets.
I need to track changes in binary files of very reasonable size. Total repo size is <1GB. But even at these small memory requirements it makes much more sense to self host with LFS. I have written this up too many times on the internet to go into great detail about how LFS isn't perfect and how I wish there was something better, but in practice it has worked extremely well for tracking a small amount of binary files. Kudos to the devs.
If enterprise corporations actually did a throughout investigation, they would probably find that a lot of their license deals have gone unfulfilled. They are really bad about this kind of stuff. It became super complicated to buy this kind of software once companies realized that they could force everything though a deal desk and try to extract as much money out of the government as possible.
We have had companies outright refuse to even give us a price when we told them we wanted to investigate buying a license. Such a PITA.
There has historically been massive investor and shareholder pressure for companies to show "Cloud Recurring Revenue" and multiple wall street analysts will start issuing higher price points for your stock based on this, and eventually large institutional investor adjust their positions accordingly.
I like the cloud for a lot of reasons. But, making your software worse to make your stock price higher seems like a loser for everyone long term.
Most government IT is using RHEL. You are correct, it is because of the thankless work they put into long term enterprise support. Microsoft doesn't do anything like that.
