This is curious to me. You either run a charity or a business. Is that sickening?
OSS is huge on HN, and a ton of HN users release OSS all the time. Yet, we all have bills to pay, and a lot of us look for ways to make money as well. Food and whatnot.
I'm not really sure what you're objecting to here? You make it sound like because a user talked about monetizing a feature to a hypothesized product that they're the same as a pharmaceutical company with life-needing medication forcing users to pay absurd amounts.
I agree that in certain scenarios how you monetize matters heavily. Yet, I can't help but feel that only applies to freedom and life-essentials. Things like basic internet access and medications.
But a git hosting service? In my view, you could open one and make it as colossally greedy as you like. It seems you disagree with this, can you voice your thoughts in more depth?
The irony of people using fast Internet (often on a fast mobile network), using fast computers, on sites like HN/FB/Twitter, etc, typically with a full belly and in an air conditioned room, to speak about the evils of the capitalistic spirit, always amuses me.
OSS is huge on HN, and a ton of HN users release OSS all the time. Yet, we all have bills to pay, and a lot of us look for ways to make money as well. Food and whatnot.
I'm not really sure what you're objecting to here? You make it sound like because a user talked about monetizing a feature to a hypothesized product that they're the same as a pharmaceutical company with life-needing medication forcing users to pay absurd amounts.
I agree that in certain scenarios how you monetize matters heavily. Yet, I can't help but feel that only applies to freedom and life-essentials. Things like basic internet access and medications.
But a git hosting service? In my view, you could open one and make it as colossally greedy as you like. It seems you disagree with this, can you voice your thoughts in more depth?
Thanks :)