I bet this doesn't come from the kindness of car manufacturers, but through laws and regulations requiring that.

We probably don't have any of that with software, yet.

Some jurisdictions do.

I agree. The only thing is that 250 employees can't be a million dollar company, as then each employee would be making $333 a month.

Well it's a nine-figure insurance company, but I've also built for their competition which is a mid-eight figures company. Both are non-US publicly traded entities.

The other 60k employee company is a company that does as much in net profit as the market cap of the first company.

Maybe a million in profit not revenue:)

I really like the way you put it. It's a serious task that's often neglected, and certainly rarely practiced with such rigor.

No. That's just how "web3" folks talk. I never managed to understand them yet. And I have to wonder if they understand themselves.

I think it means "if the whole point of your application is that customers pay to do anything, then you short circuit all the typical process of acquiring and monetizing customers". Of course you can still have zero customers nevertheless.

You literally answered your own question.

Trust no one, and it doesn't matter if it's a Fortune whatever, a small enterprise, a small company or an individual.

A company or business of any size can axe a product they own at any time, unless they contractually promised you support.

Yes. The difference is that if one employee at a large company gets hit by the “lottery bus” or loses interest, the business doesn’t go under.

Also some companies like Microsoft, Salesforce, AWS etc are more trusted by “the enterprise” than Google.

Is there an easy process for your customers to move their data over to a similar service if they don’t want to renew the contract?

The combo of data exports and open-sourcing your code is a great solution to this problem. If you vanished tomorrow customers could easily migrate to a different vendor or even self-host. That carries much less risk than betting on any early stage VC startup that might vanish overnight, even with more people involved.

Funnily now with with the advent of GPS+RTK lawnmower robots, fancy AI is not even needed anymore. They follow a very exact, pre-determined patterns and paths, and do a great job.

Yeah GPS+RTK was what I went with in the end.

Didn't work as well as I'd hoped back in those days though, as you could lose carrier lock if you got too close to trees (or indeed buildings), and our target market was golf courses which tend to have a lot of trees. And in those days a dual-frequency RTK+IMU setup was $20k or more, which is expensive for a lawnmower.

No tool is perfect for every job. That said, the positioning of the RTK unit is crucial. Possibly look for a mower which can work with multiple RTK units, or reposition your existing one for better coverage.

I find that even though signals get significantly weaker under trees, mine still works wonderfully in a complex large garden scenario. It will depend on your exact unit/model, as well as their firmware and how it chooses to deal with these scenarios.

This man is an absolute wizard, and a legend who hasn't stopped since the fantastic LZEXE days.

Does MS365 cover all potential use cases, needs and scenarios?

All in the world? I suppose I haven't tried it for recipes, but I guess Copilot could help with that too.

As far as sharing files goes though, yes. I mean, it allows you to... share files, and do so in a controlled manner. Even edit them in-app as long as they're of a supported format.

My condolences. May he rest in peace.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qmodem

It's its own doing