@Aral Balkan You know where to find me, if the need arise again :) If I can support your work by providing some resources I have available in any case, that's the least I can do!
@Adrian Cochrane The thing is that a lot of software written in Go will be deployed using the Go toolchain. As a sysadmin or regular user that just happens to install the occasional app using Go, I'm probably less inclined to even be aware there's something to opt out from.
@Børge A. Roum If there's anything confirming that we're living in a dystopian world it is that we need to "win a right" from the manufacturer to repair our own equipment. Also note that this is not a regulation or anything that the manufacturer has to comply with, it's essentially a private contract(?) between a farmers association and the manufacturer.
I'm having a hard time seeing this as anything positive. If anything it helps take some of the pressure off from the manufacturer, so regulation mandating this "right" to everybody is less likely.
@Aral Balkan It's not like Eugen invented this stuff. The fediverse existed before Mastodon, and there's plenty of other software that makes up the fediverse, some of them both older and way more capable than Mastodon.
So replace "some guy in Germany" with "a whole bunch of people across the internet".
But yeah, funding these people and projects so that people can dedicate more time to work on them, would be a very welcome change indeed!
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