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And by extension, all users of FOSS must be the product, right?
by Angostura 7mo ago
And by extension, all users of FOSS must be the product, right?
- fivetomidnight 7mo agoI see it more like a question than a rule. "The service is free. Am I the product?" That is a valid thing to ask. Even with FOSS sometimes. Some FOSS projects are backed by companies, then yes, plausible to ask. Otherwise, I would answer with a clear no. (Projects can still collect telemetry and other data and sell that, though the sell part should be very rare, imo...) Edit: Was that a bad faith argument or a honest question? Sometimes I can't tell, maybe because of old or ESL...
- chii 7mo ago> all users of FOSS must be the product, right? i would default to this being the truth, until demonstrated otherwise. Call it cynical, but it's the cynical that survive.
- Bender 7mo agoAnd by extension, all users of FOSS must be the product, right? Crowd sourced Development and Quality Assurance for something multiple companies, governments and the military are using.
- gkbrk 7mo agoWhen you use a FOSS product more, the person that wrote the code doesn't end up spending more money. When you use a free service more, someone is paying for that usage and resources.