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Giving up freedom for convenience often involves some form trust, which isn't unreasonable. You expect a service, you often pay for, to respect their users and
by tjoff 3y ago
Giving up freedom for convenience often involves some form trust, which isn't unreasonable. You expect a service, you often pay for, to respect their users and to act in their users best interest - even if they have other interests as well.
This is clearly a betrayal of that trust and also gross misunderstanding of their target audience. Totally fine to be up in arms about that.
- rglullis 3y agoI am not sure if I get your point here? We still need to trust open source developers, and no project (free or proprietary) will be successfully adopted if it doesn't act with users' best interest in mind.
- tjoff 3y agoWe do, but it requires a lot more for something like this to pass and take people by surprise. In jellyfin there is no central server and it works fine without internet access. With Plex it was always implied that they could do something like this, just not why they would want to. Not sure how "freedom" would protect you in any other sense?
- rglullis 3y ago> Not sure how "freedom" would protect you in any other sense? There is nothing being said about being "protected". I'm still not sure what your point here is. Maybe we are just talking past each other.