I Love MDN, or the cult of the free in action

Re:I Love MDN, or the cult of the free in action by jermier on Friday August 14, 2020 @11:41AM (#24159358)

> Cult of the free

This is poorly chosen language as it doesn't distinguish between freedom versus monetization.

I think most users of free software know it's 'free as in freedom' and they are not being duped.

I think most users of free services are duped into thinking it is actually free and are unaware their data is being sold and monetized and are paying for the service with their data. Lately more people are waking up to that fact though. I don't mean services like MDN, just things like Facebook, Google etc

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Re:I Love MDN, or the cult of the free in action by sushshshsh on Friday August 14, 2020 @11:59AM (#24159619)

We just need more hosted wikis where things are fulfilled by torrent or donation to a centralized source

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Re:I Love MDN, or the cult of the free in action by benmller313 on Friday August 14, 2020 @12:33PM (#24160012)

I don't think the value in MDN is developers data so much as it's about controlling the defacto standards of Web Development.

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Re:I Love MDN, or the cult of the free in action by jermier on Friday August 14, 2020 @01:01PM (#24160355)

I was referring to the phrase 'cult of the free' which is poorly chosen language as it doesn't distinguish between freedom versus monetization.

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