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The internet's infrastructure is a good example of relatively rich people doing good for everybody. Our digital world is built on tech developed largely for fre
by scalio 10y ago
The internet's infrastructure is a good example of relatively rich people doing good for everybody. Our digital world is built on tech developed largely for free by people rich enough to be able to afford this unpaid labour. Nobody ever thanks them, yet they go on because work, not complaint, is the only way to make an actual difference.
Keep laughing! It's the only weapon against malevolent idiocy.
- uola 10y ago> Our digital world is built on tech developed largely for free by people rich enough to be able to afford this unpaid labour. Citation needed. As far as I know most Internet infrastructure was developed by government funded or commercial entities.
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- shshhdhs 10y agoI think OP meant Open Source software? I still don't agree with OP's sweeping statement
- scalio 10y agoYes, should have clarified, obviously hardware wasn't built for free. Regarding the sweepiness of my statement: I feel like digital freedom would be in a much, much deeper hole if it weren't for the loads of FOSS software running our servers. Sure, there are proprietary solutions, sure some dev time gets paid, but a lot of work is being and has been done only, afaict, to make the world a better place.