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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree, although the number of pointless updates that would be pushed so that companies can keep the rights to their software makes me cringe

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Capitalism will always capitalism. "Oh, we have to provide a healthy option? Okay, it'll be the expensive option." "Oh, we have to support software? Okay, subscription models only" "Oh, we have to pay our workers minimum wage? Okay, we'll pay them not a penny more and raise our prices"

It's an endless fight... Yet, we can't stop fighting it, because attrition of our values and apathy in our actions are weapons the system uses against us.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Even books have the same. IIRC the 'corrected' version of Bilbo receiving the ring came into the Hobbit because the publisher wanted Tolkien to make a revised version to keep the copyright going.

(I presume the corrected version of that chapter was just taking advantage of the opportunity, but still...)