Agreed. In case you do not have big investors, just register as an individual entrepreneur, get a bank account and get going! It can be turned into a LLC/GmbH later if business goes well.

Also taxes will be much easier. Just get one of the countless apps where you add invoices, and they generate tax reports for you. With an LLC or when employing other people, getting a tax consultant is advised. IMO, they are not expensive - how many hours of your time are you willing to spend on this topic instead of paying e.g. 200 EUR/mo?

Can you recommend a tax consultant that charges 200 EUR/month including preparing the yearly statements?

I’m nearly at 3.5k/year and I have barely 10 invoices a month that I need to process between incoming and outgoing lol

It's a good price because the yearly statements for an LLC/GmbH are costly. We pay about 200/mo for accounting - with some more invoices :) -, 100/mo for payrolls but also the yearly statement alone is more than 2k. You can save that by not having an LLC - I personally think the risk in many software businesses is quite low. And some risks must be accepted as an entrepreneur...

My wife has a Fairphone 4, released 2021. The earpiece broke. I ordered a replacement; it arrived within 3 days and was very easy to replace. So a good experience with that.

You can compare them with the original calculations that can be found at https://www.ballonflucht.de/en/ballonrechner.html !

I did compare with the wikipedia article linked in this HN thread. The results were comparable.

Similarly, the Play Store cannot be limited and so for a kid it's easy to spend time on promotional app videos there. So the app limits are mostly useless, since you have to fully lock the phone to disable this.

Yes, but note the mutation rate of germline cells - that are passed to your offspring and hence influence evolution - is estimated to be two orders of magnitude lower than other (somatic) cells.

This really calls for an A/B speed programming test of Python vs. R practitioners.

Based on those meeting notes, the conflict of interest that arises when attempting to add features that compete with paid ones is real. So its that ideology that it is actually needed for a Government user/contributor.

To this day anything of worth that's been added to Gitea is released under MIT. Their business model is: you pay us to develop the features we need, we release them for everybody, which is how their collaboration with Blender has been working thus far. If it's good enough for Blender, who decided to stay with Gitea, it's good enough for me.

The given example is from GitLab - thanks for pointing out that Gitea follows a different OSS strategy.

Not sure: the government could just buy Gitea Enterprise license right? And thereby not really run true 'open source' software, but it would support the main development behind Gitea.

There's a batch of dialog that indicates an interest in 'digital sovereignty', so it sounds like they are less interested in being an explicit customer of a given company.

You can do that by self hosting the code.

My point was that you don't need to compete with paid features, just please give the developers money to develop the software further (and fix bugs/issues), so e.g. buy some 'enterprise license', even if you don't need it in terms of features.

While there's vscode console, I think that bare Xterm.js would be a nice addition to the list.

Agreed. Proprietary tools could then rely on those coreutils without any license fears.