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Opportunity to learn a new word?

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In a similar way it’s possible to quibble over the definition of the word democracy.

If the ability of women to vote is considered essential for democracy, then the world’s oldest democracy is New Zealand and not the US.

But rather than going by dictated definitions, if we go by popular perceptions of the words, then Nalanda is a university and US became a democracy before New Zealand.

Nalanda was multi-subject and other than theology, they also taught medicine, mathematics, astronomy, meta physics, grammar, etc. That sounds like a university to me.

You can always try to create definitions to suit your preferred narrative. But Nalanda was multi-subject beyond teaching religion.

that's another way to make the platform lose relevance... imagine if HN tried to always keep PG essays on the top of the feed

MIT license builds the trust to use it and contribute to it, or at least use it freely.

But that also enables someone to use your software as a starting point for their own competing SaaS solution.

Which is what encourages companies to at some point of time shift to a BSL license, as you might also at some point of time.

The goal is of course to build Enterprise features which are hard to replicate for others, but these imply more complex engineering challenges are being solved.

That could be plugins to integrate into other Enterprise tools like Snowflake or Salesforce for e.g.

Another interesting observation is that in next 4-5 years we could expect a robust open source MIT licensed stack for pretty much everything.

But it only feels like that, because we will start to have quantum computing and then all software will need to get rebuilt.

Cloudflare has non-transparent pricing, unlike AWS, which will charge you for every thing with detailed usage tracking.

When ever there is non-transparent pricing, it's scary to try and use an infrastructure related service.

The sales teams can't go around saying that you are not a profitable customer, and they can't argue with the marketing team to be more honest about pricing on the pricing page.

So, end result, let's bump of these small free loaders. Large enterprise deals is what gets us the bonus anyways.

I like fly.io pricing in that sense. And I am sure there might be others offering a more transparent pricing, otherwise like me still stuck on AWS.

Demand = Num of companies hiring remotely / wfh

Supply = Num of people in nearly same timezone interest in wfh

Currently supply >> demand, so if your company is embracing remote work, you need to now be good at your job when compared to a larger pool of people.

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