Readit NewsIt just has to be cheap enough and you have to have enough free time to pay for media. Not something you can do when your utilities and taxes are 100% up from 3 years ago and you’re constantly boarded with layoff news.
>It should just stay this way
Counterpoint: JS has been evolving significantly, look at ES6 and ES8 in particular if you need help finding examples.
JS is such a simple, dynamic language. It should just stay this way. Please stop bloating it with every feature that’s trendy this year. We already have classes that we didn’t need. We don’t need structs for sure.
I just think that this will end up the same way. Nothing really changes, but we’ll just get more useless „lawyer talk” in more and more license documents to click on.
They are not proposing to force media companies to make sure you have access to your media forever. Or force them to give you a downloadable copy when they remove media from store. They’ll just replace „Buy” button with „Get Access” or whatever and add some lawyer mumbo-jumbo above it.
Looks like a smokescreen to me.
But I think I get the essence of your remark, and that would be that work needs to be paid. I mostly agree (I agree "enough" to carry on anyway), more on that later.
> Unfortunately most business models around free software are ads and user profiling. Rest is just noise.
That's unfortunate but not an inevitability. You don't need to rely on ads for revenue. It's not because many businesses decided that it's okay to spy on their users and steal their time and attention that you are forced to do the same.
The projects I mentioned don't make money through ads. Other big projects are like that as well. WordPress and Nextcloud for instance both have different business models that don't rely on ads. I work for XWiki SAS, we also don't rely on ads. There are ways. You can even sell "licenses" for open source software. We do that (and it's not open core), although I think you complained more about the gratis aspect than the open source aspect. We also make money with consulting, support and hosting.
> don't pretend that REST client is charity or fight for freedom or something
I don't see what you mean. If I'm to rely on some tool, I want to be able to control it and proprietary software doesn't allow me this. So I won't use a rest client if it's proprietary. And I wish this also for my users.
I happily use proprietary software - IntelliJ, Sublime, Affinity, MacOS, etc. In my experience if you get software for free, you are the product, or you will be charged x10 more when they finally get their "business model".
First, money ≠ value.
And even when talking about money, look how are valued many open source projects like MariaDB (in the news recently), nginx, WordPress, … - yes, caveat, you mentioned consumer products, those are not all consumer products)
For some of us, it's not about likes or internet points. It's not being cheap. It's about giving the users the rights they deserve. It can be about efficient cooperation (here, it's not about this). It's also becoming a requirement in some contexts and places.
There are business models around open source software. There are other ways to make money with software than to sell proprietary software licenses.
Unfortunately most business models around free software are ads and user profiling. Rest is just noise.
There’s also a lot of repetition. Maybe it was AI generated…?