Technical literacy, hacker culture, and culture of well-considered infrastructure, have been French characteristics - at least, historically.

Has something changed for the worse?

It does, and I think they’re aware:

> Your life won't be any less rich if you go see a local band instead of Taylor Swift.

Do you disagree? If so, why?

Ah yes, the bands that can gather more than 1000 fans at a concert are all Taylor Swifts.

One of my favorite bands I've listened to since their first album is First Aid Kit. On their 10th anniversary they had several sold-out concerts at Globen [1] in Stockholm. Should've I just stopped immediately once they crossed the threshold of 100 fans worldwide? But they are a local band, they are Swedish.

In August I'm going to a concert of a Finnish band called Steve'n'Seagulls. They will play in Karlstad, a small Swedish town. They sell their tickets through Ticketmaster. Boycott I say! They are on the same level as Taylor Swift! (137k monthly listeners on Spotify, compared to Swift's 102 million).

Okay. What about bands that have been around since before Live Nation? Should I skip Radiohead, Guns'n'Roses and Sting because there's literally no way for them to tour except to book LiveNation-affiliated venues?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avicii_Arena

> a Finnish band called Steve'n'Seagulls

I wonder if their name is a deep cut Nightwish reference, who are also Finnish: https://youtu.be/gg5_mlQOsUQ?t=17s

Brilliant :) No I wonder this, too

> Or at least I never hear about it, if they indeed do

Too busy surviving to blog.

Do you have one you’re hoping to see pop up?

Have you considered doing one? ^_^

> But no one wants to work with or hire someone who comes right out and says “I hope we sell the company to some rich jerks (ANY rich jerks, really!) so I can retire to the Bahamas.”

So just lie to them long enough to extract the value you need to sell out, right?

Thank you for the unabashed insight for the reader, but, as a founder: shame on that.

> we all agree to sugar coat this type of thing. We all love money

We don’t all agree. We don’t all “love money”.

We all don’t step on each other. That’s incorrect.

You’re justifying your choices,

which were made in the pursuit of presenting you in a particular way to others,

for your own psyche.

Agreed. It’s the good old “A little beating never hurt anyone. It certainly didn’t break me when my parents did it!” speech.

Didn’t downvote, but I’m assuming dogging the team’s transition while waiting for their freebies is where people are getting caught up with your comment.

Fair. I guess the quotes make it seem sarcastic, but that was not my intention when I was quoting the article's terms. I'm genuinely interested in their approach to the community transition/transfer and what those terms mean, but it's likely they're not at liberty to say just yet. I am an active FOSS contributor to several projects, but what they do here will affect whether I am willing or even able to contribute to whatever this project becomes.

I started writing “why would you want that?”, thinking about Alexa users…

Then I remembered scripting existed ^_^

> That’s fundamentally what is behind this round.

Drop the “fundamentally”.

“It’s cleaner that way.”

What are you trying to do that you can’t?

well GTA3 and Vice City got fully decompiled by some geniuses, 5 got leaked, the missing ones are San Andreas and 4.

I know. So, are you collecting, reading? Or trying to do something?

The former. Having actual code to look at how people used to do things in the past, especially under the constraints that console games used to have before everything got boiled down to either a mobile phone SoC (Nintendo Switch) or a PC in shrinkwrap (Xbox, Playstation), is worth to have available in some public form.

That’s WHY people pay.

The point being made is: it also flags you as a known-payer,

for a repeat hit.