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Once people accept that there’s no such thing as a free (as in beer) app or service. In addition to there needs to be serious laws put in place that gives users
by yabadubakta 6y ago
Once people accept that there’s no such thing as a free (as in beer) app or service. In addition to there needs to be serious laws put in place that gives users control of their data. And they should be getting paid for facebooks profits—not the share holders.
- Nextgrid 6y agoThe problem is less about whether people accept to pay for services and more that it's currently more profitable to provide ad-supported services (paid for by non-consensual data collection) than paid ones. Regulation that forbids non-consensual data collection such as the GDPR ought to fix that, but its lack of enforcement means it didn't have any effect on the market. Once regulation starts being enforced, it will rebalance the market where paid services will start to be viable because free services would no longer be profitable.
- bob_page 6y agoThe notion that there's no such thing as free (as in beer) app is keeping people away from free (as in freedom and beer) software. Sometimes you can have your cake and eat it, although it would be nice if more people volunteered to bake the cake. Or you could donate to the bakery. Software is weird, the best software is both free as in beer AND free as in freedom.