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Thanks, I'll have a look at that. But anything with ‘book a call’ sounds unaffordable for us unfortunately ;)

Right now, I'm just looking for something that looks and acts like the ChatGPT-UI (lowest learning curve).

Our team is very diverse and has no IT background. So we don't use collaborative tools (except MS Teams), but that doesn't stand in the way of productivity - it's powered by chaos.

Thanks, I'll have a look at TypeMind. It's disappointing that the tool is closed source and that no modifications are possible or permitted. I briefly add in my requirements that I would like to have a self-hosted open source tool.

Well, look at what Japan did in the 80s. Took existing products, improved them and registered their own patents. As if China would ever care about patents... Look at the clones that Ali and his brother TEMU are flooding us with ;)

Oh sorry, I thought it had become commonplace that the free market economy was more a construct of the "West" (Europe and USA) and that communism and Marxism were the driving forces behind the market in the "East" (Russia, Asia).

Sorry, that was in no way meant to be pejorative. I'm not an economist and for sure not a racist.

Forst the first part, I totally agree: I've had a Kyocera 1030D since 2008 and apart from a single component, which I repaired myself, it works as it did on the first day.

But for color printing or photos, laser printers are simply too expensive (and quality is BAD) and I know a lot of people who buy an inkjet "just to be on the safe side" and keep hearing that they break down after being on vacation, for example.

I live in Germany and with Covid the last copy stores have died.

Yes, your argument corresponds to the Western understanding of a market economy.

But the world has been flooded with incredibly cheap electronics for years - some of them highly subsidized. It is apparently still profitable for this market to solder out components from used devices and reuse them in new devices.

And not just for toys or everyday appliances such as flashlights, but also for medical devices or devices with precision mechanics. I'm just surprised that inkjet printers are the exception here.

I often argued with business professors during my studies because the theories look good on paper but don't work in reality. If one company invents a new method and patents it, another company will not be able to improve on this method, but would rather try to get round the patent/license costs than really innovate. For me, that is not progress.

But if Linus thinks that bcachefs is stable enough for the kernel, then there must be something to it.

So do you think it makes sense for six to eight different automotive companies to conduct independent research instead of combining their research? In the end, you may have 2-3 good models, which are then either financed with high licence fees or patent penalties.

Sure, and that's why "teamwork" is being forced on students at educational institutions (at least in some states of Europe) :)

In my opinion, this is the case with the "next gen" filesystems: They are actually not THAT different: CoW, reliabity, RAID, performance, etc. - I'm not comparing FAT with ZFS, I'm comparing btrfs with bcachefs.

I don't like the statement that competition in file systems is a good thing. In the end, it means that the users are reluctant because all file systems are either only half-finished or there is an eternal discussion about which one is best or that the other one is broken by design. In the end, only the file system that is used by default by the major distributions wins anyway (currently ext4). This does not mean that no development should take place, but one could simply continue to improve btrfs instead of adding something new that will then bob around in the kernel forever.

We have the same problem in the industry, e.g. with batteries. Instead of the best scientists in the world getting together in a think tank, tanks are used to fight each other. After all, we are all pursuing the same goal, but this is getting bogged down because of profit maximisation, reputation and patents. It's not for the "human race", it's "human against human in a race".

The older I get, the more I wonder whether we need ANOTHER standard or ANOTHER new programming language or ANOTHER new Linux distribution... Maybe just sit down together and work together to improve it.

It’s all in Pi.