Comment on “Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement - Anil Dash
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 9 months agoWho is suggesting that such technology is impossible?
Every business that could stand to make a buck from it being that way. But the author obviously meant in the current economic model we live under.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 9 months ago
The internet isn’t exactly ancient technology. Do you think the ‘current economic model’ is significantly different from the 1970s?
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I don’t follow what you’re saying. The economic model we’re in has been around for hundreds, arguably thousands of years in most ways. What about it?
The author was assuming people would know that “impossible” doesn’t always need to be literal. Things are more often impossible because of established norms. That’s all.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 9 months ago
And open source came into being inside of that model, and has grown and thrived since. So obviously, it’s not impossible.
Right, this isn’t true. While certainly there are some businesses that try to restrict it, open systems grow and spread anyway. Open source is bigger and stronger than ever today. Open source software is so widespread that it’s a security concern for governments (look at the log4j fiasco). You interact with open platforms every day, even if you don’t see their names in commercials or on billboards (many of them don’t have to advertise).
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I think you’re just being argumentative honestly. I don’t disagree with anything you’ve said really, I just take issue with the intentional reading of “possible” as “technically possible”.
Yeah OSS and a lot of open systems are huge and great. They will continue to grow. But as we both know, business will continue to be intentionally shitty. Exhibit A: world’s first trillion dollar company, Apple, thrives mostly due to the proprietary ecosystem they’ve put in place. It’s a “winning” strategy, as much as I loathe it.
We’re not disagreeing on anything but wording here.