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This is a trend in software dev. Companies who publish an API for their software are inviting outsiders to enhance their application, pretty much by definition. Sometimes whole industries crop up around this idea.

Pro tools (audio editing), Final Cut Pro (video editing), almost all the adobe creative suite, autodesk products, the list goes on and on of high end products that support 3rd party development.

Around all these applications there are small businesses that crop up writing code that could have been in these big apps but the big guys are busy adding new features. Adobe gets more features in their app "for free", 3rd parties get a revenue stream, everyone wins.

Anyway, why this is relevant to EVE online. If Adobe decides to implement the functionality of your Photoshop Plug-in and ship it with their latest creative suite, from the customer's perspective they're adding value, but from the 3rd party dev perspective they're cutting the legs out of the business.

So, if you want 3rd parties to keep developing cool tools make sure you're careful about your strategy of merging those tools into eve proper. You may end up offending your 3rd party community.

Just my 2c. Never posted to an AMA before. Fly safe o7

In some ways, this battle over the internet has opened my eyes to how the Reddit spin machine works in 2017. Yes, this is going to be a post complaining about Reddit.

I believe the proper thing, if our federal government was not completely dysfunctional, would be for congress and the FCC to come together to address these issues with legislation. I believe there are some merits to having public discourse about the legislation that created the term "title ii" and whether or not it makes sense in 2017 to regulate ISPs in that way. I don't think the FCC is our last option to having an open internet.

The problem is, you can't have that discussion on reddit. A website that I joined 8 years ago that had meaningful discussion, is now either extremely polarized, or extremely corrupted by special interests. Compare this thread with this discussion on HN. I mean, that guy really hit the nail on the head with the line "spoonfed, naive response with no content". I scroll past comment after comment that do nothing to speak to the actual issue. People that only get their news here end up being misinformed. Reddit has gone dumb.

Someone please prove me wrong.

When you visit Burma, do you spend time in Rangoon? What do you think of that city? What other areas in Burma do you visit, any hidden gems?

I sure hope things get straightened out there so I can visit some day.

Have you ever played the super ninteno game Uniracers?