Obviously this is not the only reason - even the Free Software Foundation require IP assignment via a CLA.

Whether you can or will sign one is a different matter (I will not).

> not focused on building excellent products

> a lot of the things they are doing on R&D are no joke

Sounds a _lot_ like Microsoft too...

Sounds a lot like every very large company, in broader terms

> were gearing up to be a more attractive target for an exit

An "exit" from the public market?

Yes. They were burning the cash they raised from IPO as weren't profitable and no real path to profitability. Needed to find a buyer to take private as the other option - raise debt or print shares - wasn't going to happen as the share price had massively tanked and wasn't going to go up any time soon.

Hopefully mitchellh will write a book about Hashicorp some time. Would be fascinating to read the inside take.

It's not like many of those places weren't produce slop beforehand, either.

IBM did not do that, HashiCorp was a public company before their acquisition.

I’d assume that was a franchise hotel, and calling Marriott corporate would have got you some compensation at minimum.

I did. They told me to go pound it and talk to the GM. I ended up getting 15,000 points.

I probably have ~100 hotel nights a year, that’s only happened once. But the experience is dramatically worse since Covid. They used it as an excuse and then re-baselined the service. Worse product, worse services, higher prices.

The change in baseline provision is certainly true. I did a similar number of nights to you this year, but have certainly never encountered a lack of linens and would consider a credit card chargeback if I ever did.

The bottom quintiles saw their wages rise a lot corresponding to every other group. You’re just seeing the results of the fact that people are too costly to spend on this.

Yeah, I'm sure I've spent hundreds of nights in Marriott properties and never not had linens.

I do. Most of my travel is alone for work so I don’t care about a door, but I always call ahead and refuse to book hotels with shower curtains.

A new Turing test: when all the AGI worker bots would rather gargle razor blades than use Microsoft Teams, we might be close.

>use Microsoft Teams

Shit like this make rogue AI scenarios totally plausible. I won't wish that on my worst enemy

> Why would a parent think that their kid will never encounter political topics if they stay at home

They probably imagine they'll never encounter political topics from a perspective of which said parents do not approve. And they're probably not wrong to believe that.

Yes, but then their kid will become an adult and feel like they were kept in a snow globe. Even if the parents are right, its a foolish strategy!

No argument from me there. I’m observing, not advocating ;-)

(Which are, of course, far more similar than people that identify with either extreme would ever admit).