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Communism isn't that bad. I remember Cancer.
by the-dude 5y ago
Communism isn't that bad. I remember Cancer.
- TeMPOraL 5y agoHonestly? In some way, maybe they've actually had a point. Beyond all the good things that FOSS gave us, what it also did was to commoditize software, forcing software companies to make money in extremely abusive ways - through advertising, surveillance, and forcing everything into being a service.
- laumars 5y agoYou cannot blame that in Open source though, nor even Linux specifically. It was companies like Google, Yahoo! and Geocities that really set the expectation for free software with the average user and they were companies built around advertising and walled gardens. Outside of tech circles, almost nobody ran open source. But most people had or knew someone who had free email, et al. Commercial companies did this to themselves as they raced to the bottom with aggressive pricing and a need to dominate at a global scale.
- the-dude 5y agoFor all the valid reasons why software is offered as a service ( SaaS ), there is one who stands out : it is a workaround the GPL.