I don’t get the comparison.
It is true that it is often cheaper to buy a commercial solution + support in a company, instead of using open source and employing a fleet of admins to support it.
But that sure is not implied in the post.
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I don’t get the comparison.
It is true that it is often cheaper to buy a commercial solution + support in a company, instead of using open source and employing a fleet of admins to support it.
But that sure is not implied in the post.
He's still being a dick about this?? Thought he'd chilled out a bit but now he's lost all damn sense about the matter. Maybe he's at least gotten past insulting all Linux users in his videos and will be keeping this crap to a somewhat more appropriate environment.
I and a few other people kinda chatted with him a while and the reality kinda seemed to click with him? He was very stuck on "it is a product and I am the customer" mindset that is very ingrained into so many people. He said filing a bug report felt "dehumanizing" and we tried to illustrate that it can actually feel empowering if you view yourself as a collaborator, not a customer. I think he's coming around.
At least I hope he is because (opinion on FOSS aside) he really is one of the all-time best creators on YouTube right now.
This is just wrong, people stay stuck with propertiary software either out of habit or not wanting to learn new things (Assuming there is alternatives ofc). People who rent often have no other option. People who use propertiary software have other options they just don't care ebough to utilize them.
It looks like what they were trying to convey is apparently that it can be a large time and effort commitment that most people don't have the technical expertise to figure out, which is a fairly reasonable argument in some contexts, but I do not think they conveyed it very well and they're being kind of a dick about it in the replies, so idk. I understand the point, but this is NOT the way to get it across.
This feels like gossip and I wish that Lemmy would let me mark this post as hidden.
Eh, sounds like the average person in that he just wants to stick to what is familiar to him. Can't save 'em all
You can pay each month or be free forever.
Thats like the exact opposite