Calling the internet pre-bigtech useful is a bit of a stretch. It was a novelty, but the value of the internet for most people comes from the free services big tech offers, and those are primarily funded by ads.
These same people will complain if these services ran on subscriptions. They just want free stuff with zero regards to the people who make it possible.
Well, actually, yes. You act like good things being publicly available for free for the betterment of humanity is a bad thing. It's actually a very good thing.
And besides, of course I want free shit, dumbass, who the fuck doesn't?
The only reason I support a paid product is if it is made by somebody who genuinely needs to sell it to survive. It isn't an indie developer's fault, for example, if they live in a turbo capitalist hellscape where they die without money. I don't want people to suffer, so I will support those people who actually need it until the glorious day human society broadly takes the giant, barbed stick out of its ass and provides basic amenities to people for free.
But at no point are you gunna convince me to pay for big tech software. At no point are you going to convince me to send money directly to the pockets of some goblin ass shareholder when the engineers who actually made the shit won't see 10% of that money.
Open source software and the open source mindset is genuinely one of the most based things ever. Yes, we should actually encourage innovation for the sake of innovation rather than for the sake of profit. Fuck all these companies than run a million ads, fuck all these subscriptions, fuck all the profit bullshit. The internet should be for humanity, not for greedy ghouls to spread their shit all over the walls.
Tired of this fuckin idea that all of this is somehow necessary to the survival of the internet. This shit isn't necessary to humanity in general, much less the fucking internet. The profit motive is actual fucking brain cancer.
Yes someone else's hard work and labor should be made available to you as a free lunch because it benefits YOU even if it comes at to you at the detriment of others. What a childish and self-centered worldview you ppl have😂. And what happens when the developers who poured years of their talent and lives creating and maintaining the products, which you rely on, decide they want to be compensated for their efforts, in a way which doesn't align with your personal entitlement complex, they can go fuck themselves right? What you're advocating for is essentially a system of forced which was abolish over a century ago. No one is that passionate about offering software services that they subject themselves to criticism and often times literal death threats(most common in gaming communities) from literal subhuman know it alls on the internet without
"Open source software and the open source mindset is genuinely one of the most based things ever." You know what's more based? Valuing the talent and labor of those who have dedicated their time to said projects. Open source doesn't mean free ride. People build open source projects for themselves and their passions and others can come in contribute features which they find useful and so. And this fact of reality is in conflict with the open source idealism which only exists in the heads of delusional activists, you know, the ones who also give back the least, yet are firsts to make complaints and demands to the underpaid or often unpaid maintainers.(but I guess experiencing an ad after every 5th scroll on your social media app is too much of an inconvenience for you) And no-simply proclaiming "hurdur the world shouldn't run on money" isn't some enlightened, revolutionary stance. It's childish utopian idealism dressed up as something profound, you're not providing solutions to anything. In the real world research and development efforts are some of the trickiest things to efficiently allocate without monetary incentives, the alternatives are a centralized system which just turns into a popularity contest by the uninformed (imagine voting on which research will get funding which doesn't when we can't even vote for competent leaders) or a vibez based system where everyone is working on what ever projects they want to contribute to without market guidance, which obviously doesn't scale. What other alternatives is there.
In real open-source culture, people actually give back. You know, contribute code, fix bugs, support the project monetarily. Things beyond simply consuming and crying when things are not tailored to your every whim. The ironic thing here is companies like Facebook, Google, Microsoft, OpenAi etc contribute more to developments and innovation of technology in the open source space than any of you 'I ❤️ open source' performative activists have combined. Nothing noble about freeloading off of other people's work.
That's a lot of words for me to just not care dog. If the shit benefits everybody then it should be available for free. You have said basically nothing. Monetary contributions are necessary because of the system we live in. Contributing code and fixing bugs etc is an excellent part of the process. Crowd sourcing is very effective.
But I think you're not realizing that I believe money should be abolished. Or at least a non-concern.
And corporations contributing to open source projects? Sure, sometimes (although I'm almost certain it's most likely the developers and engineers doing these things, not the company), but that goes both ways. They also use open source software for their own gain.
"Freeloading off other people's work" when people in the open source community release the shit for free themselves for no other reason than to enrich the space. Way to really frame it there buddy.
Your entire mindset is based on a framework I want nothing more than to see obliterated. I do not care about any of your economics dogshit. It is good to share things, so share things. It is literally that simple, don't be a dumbass.
Don't you have some shoes to shine, boots to lick or something?
"But I think you're not realizing that I believe money should be abolished. Or at least a non-concern." Try reading the second paragraph and addressing the issues raised rather than merely restating your point. No, simply wishing really really hard for money to vanish isn't a solution to literally anything.
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u/Spider_pig448 2d ago
Calling the internet pre-bigtech useful is a bit of a stretch. It was a novelty, but the value of the internet for most people comes from the free services big tech offers, and those are primarily funded by ads.