>Oh, boy. Why can't we have a world where I can pursue my interests without the fear of loosing something
A startup is not about "pursuing interests," that's a side project. A startup is about making money by eating market share. Every product or service that comes out of it is intrinsically connected to that goal.
You are free to pursue whatever interest you want on your own time, especially in this field. Every cloud provider gives you a free tier; most major database server software are free; all the major Git providers give you free private repos; every major library is free and open source; as is every major operating system and IDE, compiler, linker, interpreter, syntax checker...
In fact, as an individual, you will be hard pressed to actually find paywalls stopping you from using new technologies.
Of course it would be nicer if we all got free stuff without having to work for it. But this isn't about that, this is about business.
A startup is not about "pursuing interests," that's a side project. A startup is about making money by eating market share. Every product or service that comes out of it is intrinsically connected to that goal.
You are free to pursue whatever interest you want on your own time, especially in this field. Every cloud provider gives you a free tier; most major database server software are free; all the major Git providers give you free private repos; every major library is free and open source; as is every major operating system and IDE, compiler, linker, interpreter, syntax checker...
In fact, as an individual, you will be hard pressed to actually find paywalls stopping you from using new technologies.
Of course it would be nicer if we all got free stuff without having to work for it. But this isn't about that, this is about business.