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Your point was that inevitably a company's interests will outweigh any other motivation. When this happens, and a platform starts going to shit, FOSS would enab
by squigz 2y ago
Your point was that inevitably a company's interests will outweigh any other motivation. When this happens, and a platform starts going to shit, FOSS would enable users to either easily migrate to a new platform, or just fork the platform itself into something new.
(Not that type of free)
- solidsnack9000 2y agoThe problem is not just that a company's interests outweigh any other motivation -- it's that those interests are what lead to resources being allocated in the first place. FOSS doesn't address the problem because people don't get paid by FOSS.