Open source it, cowards

What on earth are you talking about my guy

This is what I am talking about: [0]

If you were following Stripe for years, you would know that they are already using crypto for payments and it is here to stay.

[0] https://stripe.com/gb/use-cases/crypto

> 40 PRs open

Ah, so you've privatised the benefits and externalised the costs.

Alas, I am the product of my environment

Neat! Now find me some hills on my routes in Cambridgeshire, it's flat as a pancake out here

Ah, well then we can make them ourselves and not need to have the argument then

It's pure snobbery

I don't think so. American buses are ridiculously outdated, while having to compete with some of the most well-equipped cars in the world. If Europe had such buses, they wouldn't be popular either.

The shitty metro buses in my 3rd rate "city" have air conditioning, wifi, live location tracking to your phone, wheel chair lifts, tap to pay, tap with app to pay, and run on propane because they are old enough to have "features" left over from the last oil crisis.

Can you tell me what a "Not outdated" bus looks like to you?

Europe isn't the richest place. Some of the western cities surely have nice buses, but there are plenty of old shabby buses there too and people still ride them. Might be that the routing and timing sucks, or the general cultural individualism.

The places that have outdated buses also have outdated cars. This isn't the case in the US. The outdated buses have to compete with modern cars.

Might want to visit Budapest. The charm are the old trams etc. and they have tons of modern cars.

In my experience, a Nissan Altima/GMC Acadia are about as nice as a Gillig bus.

> American buses are ridiculously outdated

What exactly are we missing with our "ridiculously outdated" busses?

I think it's changing a lot recently. Our eng team of ~150 has been fully macos for several years now and we've deployed to Linux for ten.

This.

The community is being diluted by…a different demographic!

Including the internal Microsoft community

do you mind sharing the company name?

They're an incredible marketing machine.

But mostly it's a mix of the integration network effects you mention, cost of reimplementation if you want to leave, and the good old "nobody gets fired for buying IBM" dynamic.

It is mostly the freshness. There is a reason it all comes from small local bakeries - it has to be made that morning. Even by the afternoon it will not be as good.

Wild that I could read this article, give DeepSeek about 4 sentences of prompts and have it running on my own homelab and unifi cameras in about 10 minutes.

The future mostly sucks but some parts are pretty cool.