Comment on Ground control to Major Trial: When a $130M aerospace company chooses to endlessly abuse opensource free trials instead of typing git pull, you start to question gravity, or at least common sense.

• Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wait this is SpaceX? I thought it was another company tbh, I was under the impression that SpaceX revenue was in the billion at this point.

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Pretty sure the 100s of millions was referring to back in 2015 or so when they started abusing the free trials.

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  • fullsquare@awful.systems ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    wait, i missed that, but then idk why it got called “semi-governmental”

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    • Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think any space company is semi governmental since they are all funded by the government. I dunno man, it seems like the authors intent to misdirect have been successful. We don’t know who the company in question is.

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      • fullsquare@awful.systems ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        now that i’m thinking: would be 4000 VMs enough for spacex? maybe it is some smaller organization. i also take it is state-owned or similar, which narrows it down to a handful of countries that launch satellites

        and probably not government agency, because these would have people competent enough to do a git pull

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• jjlinux@lemmy.ml ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh, absolutely, but it’s still an exercise in futility if the goal is to have any impact on the offending company’s demeanor and course of action.

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