If you sincerely believe this, you've tinkered enough that the massive knowledge barrier that is Linux seems like nothing to you.
I would never sit my 70 year old mother down in front of a Linux machine. We're not at "caring that video files download too slowly" - we're at "how do I put a file on a USB".
This seems like a cop-out by one of the largest companies in the world to avoid giving back to the tools and languages they use to extract their profit. If you're worried about funds mismanagement, assign some oversight, add a distribution schedule (5m over 5 years) and so on.
A proper AST would "read" the source code programmatically, as opposed to brittle regex? Is there any benefit to building that when your regex works and what you're parsing is static? (Genuine questions, my compsci background is not strong).
Maybe so, but Wikipedia itself is fraying at the seams these days. Less and less Administrators every year, less and less committed editors, and more and more tech rot. See this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38550441 for more context.
Then you don't understand the relationship between capital, labour and being an employee vs employer. Yes, they are well-compensated, but they can still have their lives turned upside down by bosses. Granted, their life getting turned upside down probably means less front-row Knicks tickets and not choosing between paying a water bill and a power bill.
Don't worry, Google are hard at work undermining the product they worked so hard to build. Every year google search is worse at surfacing what you're looking for and better at an ads platform, and the advent of LLMs and SEO agencies flooding the internet with no-value regurgitated content is also not helping.
That's a misreading of the situation. The employees saw their big bag vanishing and suddenly realised they were employed by a non-profit entity that had loftier goals than making a buck, so they rallied to overturn it and they've gotten their way. This is a net negative for anyone not financially invested in OAI.
Yeah, there's no governance problems in for-profit companies that have led to, for example, the smoking epidemic, the opioids epidemic, the impending collapse of the planet's biosphere, all for the sake of a dime.
What are the parameters of the non-profit? Not having thriving as a goal for any org, even a non-profit, seems weird to me. Note that thriving is not synonymous with growing.
That's not necessarily uncommon is it? It was my understanding that bills get passed with extra funding for relatively disconnected causes all the time. They may have to credit the bill under which this was passed, but that doesn't necessarily reflect positively on the rest of the bill or the government's fiscal policy in general.
You're expecting coherency in the American libertarian mindset. There is none. "why should the government control the means of tax filing! I need to be free to pay a private company to do it!"