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29 days agoFirst part of your logic I respectfully disagree. Don’t forget that most of those proprietary software don’t make money by your payment, but by your data. You are the product yada yada. I do not therefore expect a “lower price” for software that doesn’t track and serve me more ads with a shovel. The fact that I get it for free and can choose to pay (donate) for it is an amazing plus.
Second part I fully agree though. A simple example for me is: Linux distro > KDE > Firefox > Lemmy > PeerTube instance > Content Creator. It gets out of hand really fast.
In my opinion it is very different because if PS decides every game is now 120 euros you have no alternative. If Steam decides the same, you have all the other stores to compete. The open platform argument.