Let me be clear: FOSS needs and deserves our financial support.
But this isn't really about money.
It's about how fraught it is to build a commons and a community on the back of proprietary platforms which follow a predictable pattern: in which VC money is used to subsidize free or severely discounted services to disrupt a market and create a captive audience which they then squeeze.
The incentives are simply not aligned for good outcomes.
Josh Simmons /
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2024-01-18 03:17:44
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