The replies here strangely ignore the issue of the third party intermediary, the commercial motives, the single point of failure.
Who is the third party when using software like WASTE. There is none. There is no "monetisation". A commenter thread has been running WASTE running since 2003.^1 There is no Bay Area-based "WASTE, LLC" or "WASTE, Inc."^2 that must, among other things, pay thousands of tech bros, remain "free", be allowed to operate in all countries and stay in business, let alone for 20 years.
WASTE predates "cloud computing".
1. Went from being top comment to being critiqued by tech bros.
Who is the third party when using software like WASTE. There is none. There is no "monetisation". A commenter thread has been running WASTE running since 2003.^1 There is no Bay Area-based "WASTE, LLC" or "WASTE, Inc."^2 that must, among other things, pay thousands of tech bros, remain "free", be allowed to operate in all countries and stay in business, let alone for 20 years.
WASTE predates "cloud computing".
1. Went from being top comment to being critiqued by tech bros.
2. Google, LLC or Dropbox, Inc. for example.