No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This
Seriously. What's the point of open source if companies just steal it, build billion dollar industries on top, and then lock everything down?Apple is telling us we can't run our own software on their goddamned devices, yet they built their empire on open source.Look at Facebook, Google, Amazon. They've extracted all the blood they can and given us back scraps. AWS is repackaged software you pay more for. Yes, it's managed, but you're forever a renter.They've destroyed our open web, replaced RSS with DRM, left us with streaming and music options worse than cable and personal audio libraries.The web is bloated with ads and tracking, AMP is given preference, Facebook and Twitter are testing the limits of democracy and radicalizing everyone to cancel one another.Remember when the Internet was actually pleasant? When it was nice to build stuff for others to use?Stop giving your work away for free when the companies only take.