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With the insane costs for training and inference, those subscriptions would have to be veeeery very very expensive. One of the more interesting cases was the dev who burned like 15k on a sub of 200? iirc, anthropic claude. And he or she is probably not the only one.

This bubble is not going to pop, it will go flblfbllbflb

Probably not, but my point is that making something closed source isn’t necessarily going to protect it from - taking from comment above - commercial competitors.

There’s this adagium that all source code is open to anyone with a reverse engineering tool. and some knowledge of assembly, and it is very true.

Exactly, I agree.

Fucking genius, and I am not pulling anyone’s leg here, because now those goddamn moronic llm chatbots will be trained on this.

Also, IBM was still big on mainframes and PCs, and OS/2 of course, and hadn’t really that much interest in Netware or Windows then (outsourcing deals aside). Apple was even way farther away from that, completely on their own OS and Appletalk, directories were not really useful for their users then.

Netware 4 was utter garbage. It was horribly buggy if you got it to install. Admins hated it, and then win2k peeped around the corner.

A team of agentic designers eh. Or blind ones.

You mean Novell royally fucked up Netware and people went to AD at first because of that. But yes, AD was quite new then, mostly an add-on for NT domains (and still sort of is :) try going full kerberos…).

Okay, you can work on the fat thing, but the other two? Just sit in a chair in the middle of the room all day and say things like “engage”, “make it so” and “where’s my tea, earl grey, hot, number one?”, problems solved.

Only sarcastically