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It's telling that every time an alternative, FOSS, socially-conscious tech product gets popular - CyanogenMod being a big example - they often end up doing unpo
by Apocryphon 3y ago
It's telling that every time an alternative, FOSS, socially-conscious tech product gets popular - CyanogenMod being a big example - they often end up doing unpopular shady things to monetize, and sometimes then fall apart.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27951250 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27951250
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27069913 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27069913
- yreew 3y agoCommunism/Soviet in a nutshell.
- mrbadguy 3y agoCould you please elaborate on this? Your reply is witty but it seems to me that those companies only start doing shady things once they become more capitalist (ie try to “monetize”) so I’m curious to hear more.
- antifa 3y agoNothing to elaborate, a brave HN user just needed to finally take a stance and let everyone on the English speaking internet know they agree with one of the most popular opinions on the English speaking internet.