Re:Ask HN: Should we own the free stuff we pay for?
by marcosdumay on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @11:37AM
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That's the difference between products and services and between owning and renting.
Anything that you get from the internet is a service. Even connecting to the internet is a service. And providing a service is ongoing work.
What we need is recognizing services as essential and guaranteeing people has access to them. This is something for the government to do, and the guaranteeing access part is quite complicated when the service can be exploited like email.
Anything that you get from the internet is a service. Even connecting to the internet is a service. And providing a service is ongoing work.
What we need is recognizing services as essential and guaranteeing people has access to them. This is something for the government to do, and the guaranteeing access part is quite complicated when the service can be exploited like email.