The Complexity of Selling Libre Software and Freedom in General
The Complexity of Selling Libre Software and Freedom in General
We are Selling Freedom Wrong! And I don't think this problem only applies to Libre Software or the Fediverse. It think this problem is applicable broader. I think the sense of "the end of the world" that a lot of people are feeling right now, comes exactly from this problem. From the bad enshitified...
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I think this is a good article and I agree with it.
A big part of how I got turned on to open source was emotional and still is tbh. I felt like I was being taken for a fool by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook and was angry.
The big money and power is in information technology now and it's the new instrument of imperialism, which is why 'enshittification' has happened. The great news though is that information is so easily shareable and reproducible, so the more of it we make free the harder it is for them to keep fucking us over with it.
I don't know when the next big civilizational 'reshuffle' will happen (probably on it's way now), but the more that we make common and free the less leverage the greedheads will have over us when it's time to work out a new settlement.