> The purpose-specific computing is more profitable right now. If people paid for open general purpose systems and software those would be more profitable beca

> The purpose-specific computing is more profitable right now. If people paid for open general purpose systems and software those would be more profitable because people use them more and use them for more serious things. I am very close to deciding that the FOSS movement is partly responsible for this dystopia. More specifically it's the substituting of free "as in beer" for free "as in freedom." These two are actually at odds. Free "as in beer" is the bait on the hook for surveillance capitalism.