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It’s the End of the Web as We Know It (www.theatlantic.com)
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[–] acastcandream@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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[–] astraeus@programming.dev 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] acastcandream@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[–] davehtaylor@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  1. The largest code contributors to Linux are corporate contributions
  2. 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.