Want to share the interesting article. The full is available through link.
“Ultimately, free is a cancer that plagues humanity, because it forces an authority’s surveillance to decide appropriate use. And usually a single participant can scale through harsher enforcement to control the service more efficiently. And then it turns Mastodon, chat, email, and website servers into Dr. Seuss’ Thidwick the moose, where the leeches weigh him down. Even if he had good intentions when he started, it’s unsustainable to have the dependents free-load.”
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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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I guess the stawman of ‘most FOSS advocates’ could be anything, but attributing ‘free as in beer’ to FOSS, taking it from their slogan ‘free as in freedom NOT free as in beer’ is beyond stupid.
Yes, its rational. Todays big tech monopoly is hard to override because people start to believe that all services on the internet should be free as bear and they dont want to pay nothing nkr for servers that used to store their emails, photos, videos, documents neither for infrastructure. They want everything free and the only ones that could provide (meaning “sell for free”) such services with a lot of internal cost are an ad tech big companies. Because of this no one want to pay because free became a trand in digital society.