Plenty of people are ok with ads and such, and that’s fine. People who don’t want that may need to pay for the infrastructure of having an alternative platform. It all comes down to what you value more, and there’s no inherently right or wrong answer.

Time for nethack.

If the money is freely given as a donation, then I’m with you. If lack of money is what is stopping someone from making things that others are willing to pay to see more of, then sure. But if the only way to do it is to have ads or selling our data etc, then I don’t want that.

I’d rather have one unix surrealism than a thousand influencers with lots of followers. These days, I want to be among people who interact as equals, who share ideas, who cooperate in a genuine way. If we try a shortcut to more users through money, what is the point?

Recently I was reading a discussion that docker solves a linux problem, and therefore isn’t needed in the BSD projects. But then some other people disagreed. If there was only one linux distribution, say debian, do you think docker would be needed? This is not a rhetorical question, I’m genuinely wondering what you think.

I agree, on both levels.

Isn’t that kind of what colonies are for? Extracting money from land you took from the people who lived there before?

After reading this I was at the local grocery store and counted 17 different kinds of bearnaise they sell. Sweden loves bearnaise.