▲ 1 ▼ It’s the End of the Web as We Know It (www.theatlantic.com) submitted 2 years ago by remington@beehaw.org [M] to c/technology@beehaw.org 17 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] acastcandream@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) spoilerasdfasdfsadfasfasdf permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] astraeus@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago (2 children) Linux is a prime example of quality that isn’t paid for. No one forces you to pay for Linux, you can of course support the maintainers and donate, but it’s not a for-profit endeavor. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] acastcandream@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) spoilerasdfasdfsadfasfasdf permalink fedilink source parent [–] davehtaylor@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago* The largest code contributors to Linux are corporate contributions Regular people who contribute to OSS do so as a passion project, as a hobby, and have other unrelated jobs that pay the bills. Those people still have to make a living, they're just not doing it from their software contributions. Journalism isn't a hobby and you can't work a day job and still be an effective journalist. News orgs don't come together as hobby projects. I'm not defending advertising. I hate it and think it's ruined the web. I'm just addressing the analogy here wrt Linux. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] astraeus@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago (2 children) Linux is a prime example of quality that isn’t paid for. No one forces you to pay for Linux, you can of course support the maintainers and donate, but it’s not a for-profit endeavor. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] acastcandream@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) spoilerasdfasdfsadfasfasdf permalink fedilink source parent [–] davehtaylor@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago* The largest code contributors to Linux are corporate contributions Regular people who contribute to OSS do so as a passion project, as a hobby, and have other unrelated jobs that pay the bills. Those people still have to make a living, they're just not doing it from their software contributions. Journalism isn't a hobby and you can't work a day job and still be an effective journalist. News orgs don't come together as hobby projects. I'm not defending advertising. I hate it and think it's ruined the web. I'm just addressing the analogy here wrt Linux. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] acastcandream@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) spoilerasdfasdfsadfasfasdf permalink fedilink source parent
[–] davehtaylor@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago* The largest code contributors to Linux are corporate contributions Regular people who contribute to OSS do so as a passion project, as a hobby, and have other unrelated jobs that pay the bills. Those people still have to make a living, they're just not doing it from their software contributions. Journalism isn't a hobby and you can't work a day job and still be an effective journalist. News orgs don't come together as hobby projects. I'm not defending advertising. I hate it and think it's ruined the web. I'm just addressing the analogy here wrt Linux. permalink fedilink source parent