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It’s not ironic. It’s by design. Too many companies depend on closed-source ecosystems to siphon a profit from the average user, so they will never allow Linux
by nopenopenopeno 5y ago
It’s not ironic. It’s by design. Too many companies depend on closed-source ecosystems to siphon a profit from the average user, so they will never allow Linux to serve the masses while also allowing it to remain open and free.
- r_hoods_ghost 5y agoTo reverse this. Too many companies depend on open-source ecosystems to siphon a profit from the average dev by persuading them to work for free. Foss isn't free. It merely shifts the costs from users and corporations to that one guy in Nebraska. Foss came about because RMS wanted to fix his printer, other academics wanted to share their code, devs didn't want to have to go through finance to buy software, and internet companies wanted to reduce their costs. The rest is just post hoc rationalization.