There will never be a "year of the desktop", because the desktop is dead. The reality is that such a large percentage of the population use mobile devices for the majority of their interactions that whatever happens on the desktop is irrelevant. I find it bizarre because the mobile experience is so abysmal compared to a proper desktop. But I've never understood the mainstream, and I guess this is just another example of that.

Alas dying. Jorg had a heart attack a few days ago.

GPL-ers think that companies keep secret a lot more than they do. It's mainly just secret sauce and added value. IBM, Intel, Juniper, iXSystems all drive FreeBSD development.

If you look at most of the biggest/most useful libraries for Python and other languages the heavy lifters are all BSD/MIT/Apache (or similar): Numpy, Scipy, sklearn, Plotly, matplotlib, Tensorflow. Because of their use as building blocks in larger tooling I feel the non-GPL is important.

I have occasionally found an edge case where I knew I had a secret sauce and intentionally made it GPLv3, but that is the exception.

I've noticed a huge influx of the 'tip jars' or open hands when it comes to node.js "things". (As a thousand warnings scroll by about deprecation).

I've also never seen the FreeBSD developers put out a hand. They all seem to be gainfully employed by someone that makes money from FreeBSD: iXSystems, Juniper, etc.

It's also why I make sure all of my stuff is MIT/BSD licensed. There's a non-zero chance some of my libraries gets picked up by someone that wants to use it in something bigger. You're welcome to do whatever you want, but if you get stuck I know the guy that wrote it, give me a call. It also doesn't scare them away from using it since it won't taint their entire project with the GPL. No need to resort to some weird GPL minus SaaS exception.

Not everyone games with their GPUs. Nvidia had a lock in the ML because of CUDA for a while and I haven't payed attention to the backends in a few years.

No.

Having a good boss is essential since they can also shield you from people that can't wrap their head around 'alternative work styles'. I think the 9-5 is fantastic for some people. I am not one of those people.

No two weeks working from home ever look the same. One time I took a mental health break afternoons with matinee movies (Back when MoviePass existed) and crank through work 9PM to ~1-2 AM. There were some days that felt as productive as a work week in the office but that was 4 hours of complete uninterrupted work vs cube gophers and meetings.

I also love going to the office. But office weeks are not 'work' weeks. I show up to a bunch of meetings. Let people put a face to a name. Buy lunch. Hash out ideas on whiteboards. Etc. More than 5 days per month and I find that office work starts to cut into productivity. I have enough work to do to not give you a status update once a day or even a week.

Sometimes when stuff was slow I'd work 10 hours a week. Sometimes I'd have no problem working 80 hour weeks because it never felt like working. I'd binge watch some background TV series over 3 days and have a self-'hackthon'. I probably *averaged* 40 hour weeks but if you forced a 40 hour week I'd be way less productive.

There should be a large billboard in a common area with 'Phishing Victims'.

Yes. Especially in Automotive/Aerospace.

Now that Microsoft realizes it was wrong about FOSS, what's next? Thin Linux Clients to the Office365 cloud?

I don't think I would have ever tried the BSDs or the Linuxes if OS X didn't come with Terminal.app 20 years ago.

Yes, fleets. Customers that own 10k vans want to keep track and maintenance on all of them.

The reason the "F150 is the best selling truck in america" is because of fleets.

Have you ever attempted to put on any large scale event?

You geniuses might want to check the username. I'm not him, he's not me. Check our post histories.

Unless you want me blaming you for something user dgfhji says.