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It sounds a bit like a combination of several factors, each alone would not have been as bad. But this is exactly what starts to happen when complex systems get stressed.

Here on the Azores the local power company is pretty used to quickly fixing storm damage and the overall network is far simpler. So in some ways a smaller system is more resilient, but of course that can't be generalized.

Yes, you could continue using the old unmaintained app, but this is similar to using old proprietary app versions that lack security updates and are always at risk of stopping to work due to some changes in your OS. So that is far from ideal.

Non-commercial is really not well defined legally. For example in Germany, a public tax funded broadcaster was found in breach of a CC-BY-NC license for using an image on their website. And many similar legal examples exist. So basically anything that involves a service offered to more than one person, even if totally free and donation funded, is not safe from litigation.

And obviously, if upstream changes the license to something that triggers a hostile fork, it is unlikely that you will get a commercial license for that hostile fork. Furthermore, even if you somehow can make a deal, you will always remain hostage of that proprietary license.

FOSS licenses are explicitly designed to protect the users of the software from such potentially abusive licensing, so I really don't think anyone will see this as an improvement.

Welcome back. Looks like it was still in our database 2 years later and I restored it now: https://slrpnk.net/c/open_source_ecology

You could probably approximate something similar with Odoo. It is a big ERP, but all modular, so you can just remove the parts that are too complex.

Well, if they want to try that they are of course free to try, but the argument has a big gaping hole:

They might not ever change the license terms afterwards for software already on your hard-drive, but they absolutely can do so for updates and likely will. Normally that would result in a fork if the new terms are bad, but who would be willing to fork software under a restrictive non-commercial license that doesn't even allow you to collect donations for running the infrastructure?

So in the end you are basically back at square one with nothing but nice promises by them and still vendor locked.

Maybe, but the digital Euro has none of the buyer's privacy protection of Taler.

I personally suspect that the digital Euro will not see much every-day uptake because it will be overly bureocratic and a hassle to use, but it might end up as an common way to charge your Taler wallet.

https://www.gls.de/taler is the page of the German bank.

The forum of the ongoing project has some interesting links, but is sadly not very active: https://ich.taler.net/

No, it is a payment system, not a pseudo currency. Think of it as an open-source Paypal.

It has been used as a digital voucher system on some events, and there is afaik a trial with a inofficial regional currency somewhere in Italy.

But mainly people are currently waiting for the first bank to offer an option to charge your Taler wallet with Euros. There is a German coop bank that plans to do so in the comming weeks.

We are federating with Beehaw. Maybe something recently broke because they are still on a very old version of Lemmy?

Edit: no, seems to be still working.

Looks quite nice, and at least it isn't a Quest exclusive title.

Everspace 2 never got VR even though I think it was suggested at some point during the kickstarter.

Odd, logged out it seems to work here.