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On the up side. Its only fair that Austria be put at an economic and scientific disadvantage for once. Well, whoever signed this off must have thought so anyway

On the up side. Its only fair that Austria be put at an economic and scientific disadvantage for once. Well, whoever signed this off must have thought so anyway.

ChuckNorris89 4y ago
They're way ahead of you on that. Much like its bigger cousin Germany, Austria is in general a dinosaur, technologically, culturally and politically. Low tech wages and archaic working practices, stuffy bureaucracy, cash and physical paperwork needed for many things, poorly developed, expensive and slow internet infrastructure, corrupt and idiot politicians who don't understand the modern technology sector, litigious politically connected companies who sue anyone they don't like and lobby for anti-consumer laws that only benefit their cartel, privacy regulations taken to the extreme which mainly protect the crooked and unlawful people and businesses from being known to the public, etc. This news isn't surprising to anyone familiar with Austria and these intelectual property bullies from the list of companies that got the Austrian court to block those IPs is just the tip of a huge shitty iceberg in Austrian tech & politics.
- fisf 4y ago
  Ha, I reckon you live there. The description is pretty authentic.
- cloutchaser 4y ago
  They’re also like world no 8 in gdp per capita. I think they’ll be ok.
  - ChuckNorris89 4y ago
    GDP per capita isn't the be-all and end-al of statistics for defining a country's success. Just ask the residents of the Republic of Ireland, the country with the second highest GDP/capita in the EU, how they feel about this position. Sure, life is good here, if, you're not a tech worker, and that sector become more and more important in generating wealth, skilled jobs with a future, attracting skilled immigrants to pay taxes, and to project influence and soft power globally, that's why so many smart but not necessarily rich countries jumped to take advantage of this new sector (China most famously). So a high GDP per capita might not save you in the long run if every ambitious tech graduate is leaving your country to Switzerland, London, Germany, Ireland, SV, etc. for a better environment where they can grow their career and earn better salaries, which leads to most tech products and web services used in your country all coming from abroad because your domestic tech industry is shit since your country got complacent and decided to sleep through the tech revolution with the idea that you'll "be fine since we're 8th GDP/capita in the world".

On the up side. Its only fair that Austria be put at an economic and scientific disadvantage for once. Well, whoever signed this off must have thought so anyway.

ChuckNorris89 4y ago

They're way ahead of you on that. Much like its bigger cousin Germany, Austria is in general a dinosaur, technologically, culturally and politically. Low tech wages and archaic working practices, stuffy bureaucracy, cash and physical paperwork needed for many things, poorly developed, expensive and slow internet infrastructure, corrupt and idiot politicians who don't understand the modern technology sector, litigious politically connected companies who sue anyone they don't like and lobby for anti-consumer laws that only benefit their cartel, privacy regulations taken to the extreme which mainly protect the crooked and unlawful people and businesses from being known to the public, etc. This news isn't surprising to anyone familiar with Austria and these intelectual property bullies from the list of companies that got the Austrian court to block those IPs is just the tip of a huge shitty iceberg in Austrian tech & politics.

fisf 4y ago
Ha, I reckon you live there. The description is pretty authentic.
cloutchaser 4y ago
They’re also like world no 8 in gdp per capita. I think they’ll be ok.
- ChuckNorris89 4y ago
  GDP per capita isn't the be-all and end-al of statistics for defining a country's success. Just ask the residents of the Republic of Ireland, the country with the second highest GDP/capita in the EU, how they feel about this position. Sure, life is good here, if, you're not a tech worker, and that sector become more and more important in generating wealth, skilled jobs with a future, attracting skilled immigrants to pay taxes, and to project influence and soft power globally, that's why so many smart but not necessarily rich countries jumped to take advantage of this new sector (China most famously). So a high GDP per capita might not save you in the long run if every ambitious tech graduate is leaving your country to Switzerland, London, Germany, Ireland, SV, etc. for a better environment where they can grow their career and earn better salaries, which leads to most tech products and web services used in your country all coming from abroad because your domestic tech industry is shit since your country got complacent and decided to sleep through the tech revolution with the idea that you'll "be fine since we're 8th GDP/capita in the world".