In 2014 it wasn't all that obvious yet that the future internet would largely abandon the Web and become mostly apps talking to JSON APIs.
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Are you working on X11 though?
It makes people less happy, sure.
But it's also the reason why German machinery has the good reputation it has. Because even if it works pretty great already, somebody will find a detail to "complain" about and improve it.
Also, Starship doesn't need pilots, so freight transport could be automated.
On the other hand, I wonder about noise emission. Probably much louder than planes.
Who told you that? Weird choice of words.
Heard it all a thousand times already.
This is exactly what OSS is all about. Take a code base and develop it into different directions. Both code and organization. And "natural selection" will have some forks die and others strife.
Because that may come with a shift in influence and power. And the current leader may simply kill the inventor to stop change that may threaten his position.
And then there is Western capital, used to rule of law and personal property. They don't see that reality as a realistic threat. So they keep pumping money into China. It will work. Until it doesn't. And then the CCP will simply take it.
But somehow I suspect that it will be a "too big to fail" situation, and all those losses will be socialized in the West, i.e. the Western governments pay for the losses probably.