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I was about to say the same thing. It even happens in the FOSS world. Open Source theorists tell us all the time that "free" only means "free-as-in-freedom". T

I was about to say the same thing. It even happens in the FOSS world. Open Source theorists tell us all the time that "free" only means "free-as-in-freedom". That we can share the code and sell the builds. But whenever someone actually wants to charge users money for their own FOSS apps, even if it's only a few bucks to pay for hosting and _some_ of the work, outraged users quickly fork the project to offer free builds. And those forks never, ever contribute back to the project. All they do is `git pull && git merge && git push`. Maybe the Google+Apple move was a strategy against piracy. Or maybe it was a move against the FOSS movement. And maybe the obsession with zero-dollars software was a mistake. Piracy advocates thought they were being revolutionaries, and in the end we ended up with an even worse world.

sirjaz 2y ago
We need to get back to Native Software aka "Apps". As I have said before we have these powerful machines, with cheap storage. Why do I need to connect to a remote host through a bloated web interface just to read a document, it would be better, faster, and smaller locally.
- mindslight 2y ago
  When I was learning embedded design, the general rule of thumb was to aim for 10ms polling for user input, because human tolerance for delay is around 100ms so 10ms appears instantaneous. Then I see products like Nest come out, with big endcap displays at home improvement stores, and I'm like how do people not just immediately write this off as janky trash. Then again maybe the extra lag (and jitter!) is gets a pass because its part of these products positioning themselves in the niche of "ask the controlling overlord if you may do something" rather than "dependable tool that is an extension of your own will".