lucasgonze

The fee exceeds what many of these engineers earn in a year, with the average H-1B salary at TCS running about $105,000. A typical engineer deployed to an American client site generates $150,000 to $200,000 in annual billings at roughly 10% operating margins, producing $15,000 to $20,000 in yearly profit. The $100,000 upfront fee eliminates five to six years of that entire profit stream. J.P. Morgan states bluntly that the move effectively “prices out the utility of H-1B as a source of labor supply.”

A human is a peripheral. Our use cases are meaning, identity, and purpose.

I respect you and Automattic being transparent about your thinking here on HN.

I'm not an accountant, but I know enough to have a sense of much "creativity" is possible. The purchase price might be in the past, while costs are ongoing. Yes there would be a markdown from purchase to sale, but that's a different line item from the annual run rate.

Epic owning Bandcamp never made sense.

Getting Bandcamp off the books is likely to make the business look better to investors.

The only people who know the term "copyleft" are already familiar with GNU, the FSF, and the free software movement. That is a tiny pool.

ShareAlike is also effective.

What we know for sure is that Copyleft is never going to work.

Which came first, the supply or the demand?

Any time you write you create noise for others. You shouldn't do that unless the information you are offering is valuable to them. Your writing can't be about you. It has to serve the reader.

Growing up I envisioned myself as a writer. When I got old enough to test that out I found out the truth of this writer's piece: I was well-known but painfully poor. My girlfriend asked "what are you doing this for?" and I couldn't answer.

I reset my career vision to writing creative code and everything turned around. Adulthood is crap except when it isn't.