That's is not what the problem is, lol, not by far. Nothing is a problem if you look at it in a short enough timeframe.
I'm not complaining about the few more people that discover Linux, I'm complaining that we are systemically introducing the same problems we want to get away from ("that the price is high/threatening", especially now that desktop Linux is on a steady rise & we need such """endorsements""" the least).
But "Linux" isn't giving him any money either, surely. This argument breaks down because of that.
What? With influencers it's what is monetisable in any current situation, what gets more views (and more money with that via various channels - atm "Linux" gives him revenue via selling ads etc to more people, if you offer him more money than that, he will sell whatever you say, that's his profession). If a megacorp wants to get in on it they freely can. At any point. But it would be a lot harder to do that if we don't/didn't have professional ad-people (no background, just as the money winds go) intertwined from the "start".
Financial power of a/any megacorps dictating foss just leads to monopoly again (eg how Google took over & is now closing more and more the "Android Linux"). And it makes it harder for projects to get support from "the people" vs "what is the most monetisable for some private entity".
Overlooking that is akin to saying scalpers help redistribute the product. Technically, sure, so "what are you complaining abut, so cyclical."
Talking about foss has literally become marketable. That's the only reason professional influencers are talking about it now. And people listening to them will listen to whatever they say next too. And that ("money talks, bullshit walks") is a bad future for foss which should be by it's nature free of such incentives bcs it just becomes another megacorps monopoly.
Going into foss & financially rewarding corps that aren't dedicated to open principles is just the current market situation (MS & Google) but with sparkles. It inevitably leads to more inequalities.
It's prob necessary to do something, even new ICE vehicles & new fuels are not the cleanest in India, but old ones prob really need to go, especially in a country with such pollution problems.
How to achieve that & why not boost public (city) transport instead, etc & why they decided to go this way can def be questioned - but that's in all nations & at the end something still gets done.
(And from the little bits I've seen, mostly over memes & various news bits, the quality is questionable. Just don't follow the whims of influencers, it's not the correct way forward imho, it just inevitability leads to or spreads enshitification.)
(Different definition/pov of what is measured, yes, that is where the joke is.)
Hehe, look at this falsehood - there is no way this things can talk!
(However imho this is a more clear example of 'two different definitions' of the main concept/phrase intentionally mixed together for comedic effect, bcs words can explicitly have more than one meaning, and yes, usually you can tell from the context.)
This pic is def:
This "fun fact" mixes up the two definitions, making the statement meaningless.
Or at least the merit part of meritocracy being an overall gain for society/foss space (same thing), not individual isolated achievements/products.
With that mindset of overall benefits you do move on from strict meritocracy bcs everything is a group effort, of not just direct contributors (but obviously mostly of them) but ultimately of all stakeholders (users too).
We all need to grow, and I think, given reasonable opportuneness, we do.
So ... CIA had an issue (made public for some reason making me believe it was ultra insignificant stuff), CIA says they found all the possible evidence in this one dudes travel hotel room (unguarded, unhidden, unencrypted, with 0 reason for it to even be there) then forced the confession out of this dude (at the least repeatedly asking him to confess the found evidence was his and not letting him go unless he confesses)?
Also "CIA paid the ultimate price" ... referring to how China killed 20 Chinese people working for the CIA, lol.
Hey, sexy bone-marrow pelvis, shake them atomic gains!
(OK, but like, if I produced synthetic plutonium I would make the box look like a chocolate box. Those workers & engineers deserve to have a fun work environment, engage in some shenanigans, make an oopsie from time to time.)
That's is not what the problem is, lol, not by far. Nothing is a problem if you look at it in a short enough timeframe.
I'm not complaining about the few more people that discover Linux, I'm complaining that we are systemically introducing the same problems we want to get away from ("that the price is high/threatening", especially now that desktop Linux is on a steady rise & we need such """endorsements""" the least).
What? With influencers it's what is monetisable in any current situation, what gets more views (and more money with that via various channels - atm "Linux" gives him revenue via selling ads etc to more people, if you offer him more money than that, he will sell whatever you say, that's his profession). If a megacorp wants to get in on it they freely can. At any point. But it would be a lot harder to do that if we don't/didn't have professional ad-people (no background, just as the money winds go) intertwined from the "start". Financial power of a/any megacorps dictating foss just leads to monopoly again (eg how Google took over & is now closing more and more the "Android Linux"). And it makes it harder for projects to get support from "the people" vs "what is the most monetisable for some private entity".
Overlooking that is akin to saying scalpers help redistribute the product. Technically, sure, so "what are you complaining abut, so cyclical."
Talking about foss has literally become marketable. That's the only reason professional influencers are talking about it now. And people listening to them will listen to whatever they say next too. And that ("money talks, bullshit walks") is a bad future for foss which should be by it's nature free of such incentives bcs it just becomes another megacorps monopoly.
Going into foss & financially rewarding corps that aren't dedicated to open principles is just the current market situation (MS & Google) but with sparkles. It inevitably leads to more inequalities.