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Starliner spacesuits not compatible with SpaceX Dragon (boingboing.net)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

They don't contribute engineers out of the kindness of their hearts. They do it for entirely selfish reasons — to have a large influence in industry standards, and the competitive advantages that enables.

Do you also believe Google created Chrome for "freedom", instead of to gain a competitive advantage in web and ad tech standards?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do you believe any for-profit entity give two shits about anything except for profit? Oh, that's right, the one you like/work for is different.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In what universe was my comment promoting any for-profit? Are you mentally deficient?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

Why do you think any "privatized" entity does anything? Altruism? Charity?