Why would anybody do that? Maybe only when you charge by hour it makes sense because making something more complicated than Todo list is a struggle.

Why?

But it is in germany - sort of police state in term of Internet. No thanks.

In Autumn 2017 there's going to be a new Hetzner datacenter in Finland [0].

[0] https://www.hetzner.de/it/hosting/presse/info-0916

As a someone who lived in abusive relationship with a control freak this manifesto scares me.

It is not going to happen, because they have politicians in their pockets and nobody will investigate that.

I sadly also agree with you 100%

I charge almost double if client wants me on site, especially if all the company is crammed in open plan arrangement. You either can't focus well or have to keep destroying your hearing with headphones and work takes longer to complete. If WFH make sure to do a walk in the morning and after work and go somewhere for a lunch.

Those people ruin it for everyone. They could rent their own office to escape their wives, but are likely not paid enough to really escape. Modern office slaves.

It's open source under the Apache Licence. Worst case scenario, the community would fork it and take over, but I don't think doing so would be remotely in Microsoft's interests. I genuinely believe the Microsoft of today is a totally different company in its attitude to open source software than it was even 10 years ago.

They are not. They sold me VS knowing well it will be obsolete in couple of months time and won't refund or discount upgrade. Absolutely vile company.

It's been close to 2 decades since the "M$" moniker had any relevance. This is not 1997 and we are not in the "browser wars".

It seems like author has problems with correctly architecting his apps and blames Django for his inability to do that. Only thing that makes sense is a tip for migrations.

Politicians are exempt. Seriously.

Diplomats are exempt, but a random Member of Parliament is not.