100%. They should just step aside and let all those theocratic shit holes arm them selves with more nuclear weapons and wipe each other out. Problem sorted.

Of course you might get a bit of radioactive dust blow over the sea for a few hundred years but totally worth it.

Utterly perplexing you've backed off with a scathing 'Sorry, I can't engage' after literally contracting yourself plain as day a few comments up.

I think you can't understand his analogy no? Without taking it literally to the point of making it your entire life's purpose to counter the point?

How about this: You have a 1 in 100,000 chance of eating an M&M which literally drains your bank account and you have to eat hundreds or possibly thousands of M&M's per day.

(some of your dreaded hyperbole for transactions)

Would you dig in to that bowl? There's shouldn't be a miniscule percentage chance of your entire livelyhood being ripped away and locked forever without recourse simply by using a certain payment platform. Is that fair? Or are you still intent on stepping on the cosmic merrigoround of potential ruin without a care in the world?

He still does offer them for free as far as I know. Perhaps not his most recent ones.

Stoolap? Sounds disgusting.

Thank you for your service /s

These scenarios end up being testers to see what people will pay. If people are buying your product at a ridiculous price, why drop it?

Considering we surely have wildly different experiences and contexts, you could almost say we live on the same planet, but it looks very different to each and one of us :)

No... :-)

State an open source alternative so I can explain to you why the masses think it's crap.

While I agree a lot of open source messenger services have terrible UX, I don't think "the masses" care about it that much. What matters is what everyone else is using. People are using Snapchat or Instagram Messenger and I haven't seen a single person who likes the UX of those services - they just use it and put up with hatred for it because that's what all their friends use.

MSN Messenger had tons of open-source clients back when it was the popular IM network, and it was a weekend or two of work to write a client for it.

Open source has nothing to do with this conversation.

I’ll bite : how does open source have nothing to do with a comment discussing “freedom oppressing software” and “Stallman”?

To be honest, I couldn’t imagine a word more related than "open source". Isn’t that junction literally the acronym F/LOSS?

I think this is purely first mover advantage. We get stuck with bad products simply because those were the first products on the market. It is difficult to change them once everyone uses them. The same applies to the adoption of IT on the banking industry. Now we are stuck with COBOL and systems that are hard to migrate without damaging the economy.

This has inspired me to literally build an exact copy of this but use a GUID instead and also not confusingly tie it to the file name. Such weird choice made with this...

(developer here)

Let me know how your version goes - would love to see it.

Please say you work at Slack and haven't just typed this almost certain time line of events off the top of you head?