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> You bring up a great point: how do we deliver high-quality software to the general public that is stable, easy-to-use, and secure, yet respects user privacy?
by api 5y ago
> You bring up a great point: how do we deliver high-quality software to the general public that is stable, easy-to-use, and secure, yet respects user privacy?
You have an honest business model where people pay for things.
"Free" is the cornerstone of surveillance capitalism.
- autoexec 5y agoYou really just need an honest product. Plenty of companies are perfectly happy to charge several hundred dollars for their product and then still use it to spy on their users so that they can stuff their pockets with even more money at our continued expense.
- api 5y agoYou are right in that an honest economic model is necessary but not sufficient. “Free” makes honest software impossible because software is labor intensive.
- autoexec 5y ago> “Free” makes honest software impossible because software is labor intensive. I wouldn't say "impossible", because lots of really great and privacy respecting software exists even while being well maintained. VLC is my go to example: Free, popular, as good if not better than commercial alternatives (given all it's capable of), and still extremely privacy friendly after all these years.