One of the major accusations was that they asked too much of Madison for a single person to accomplish, and fired her over not meeting their expectations. While this is not great, it’s not legally problematic.

Yes, but that’s not how it works in practice. Running a government is a huge money-making machine, and so it attracts the worst kind of people.

Of course they are in it for the money, what do you think?

Cops, at least in the US, are also a violent street gang.

There are many new technical papers that are only written in Chinese these days, especially in AI.

Rust has the turbofish: ::<>

Futurists are people who cosplay as scientists predicting stuff they have no clue about.

People in the airplane industry were already wondering where Russia gets all of the replacement parts from.

They tried to revoke a perpetual license.

In addition to a very xenophobic culture that doesn’t allow the addition of missing working-age people via immigration.

Unity doesn’t give out perpetual licenses any more, it’s a subscription model. If you don’t like it, you can leave at any point in time, but then you also don’t have a license to distribute their engine along with your game.

The problematic part (for Unity) is that they used to have a clause in the contract that said that you could keep using the old license terms as long as you didn’t update the engine. They removed that last year, but developers who are using an older version than that should be able to have a chance at the court. The problem is just that small indie devs don’t have the money for this multi-year legal battle.

The bigger question is, will developers be able to talk to their USB-C equipment without an MFi chip?

I think that we’ve reached the peak of that form factor. Every real change will have to deviate so much that we wouldn’t call it smartphone any more.

What’s weird to me is that CEOs should know all about accounting and financials. He should have realized that this pricing model is unsustainable for most Unity developers, because many make less than what he’s asking for per install themselves.

It’s clear that professional CEOs don’t know anything about tech, but this isn’t a tech issue.

He has to pay back his debts, and Musk likes to be paid in praise.

Well, glad that I switched away from Unity in 2016. The competition by the Unreal Engine caused some really weird business decisions back then.

To be fair, based on his companies the odds of that bet are quite good.

As certified by Boeing?

It also affects merchants from inside the EU. People here are pretty sure that it does violate Free Movement, but since those proceedings for violations can take a few years, for now we’re stuck with it.

In 2025 the EU wants to introduce a similar system for the whole Union, but unified (so one representative for the whole EU). When that comes, the Austrian system will probably be disbanded, and since the EU is significant enough of a trading partner, the whole issue will probably be fixed. However, until then we’re stuck with a law-enforced Amazon monopoly.

It’s a new packaging law. Every non-Austrian merchant who wants to ship goods to Austria has to have a local notary acting as a representative who has to register the packaging used for shipments with the local authorities and is personally held liable for this. There are local notaries that offer this service for foreign merchants for about €800 per year. However, Austria is such a small market that this most likely eats up all of the revenue from Austrian customers for small merchants, so most just stopped shipping to the country. Of course, large merchants like Amazon easily can handle that fee.