Just this one. The philosophy is still there, Linus and TLF have abandoned it with great hubris. I am very disappointed in them.

I had this problem back in the great recession and joined habitat for humanity. Met some weirdos, was pretty good.

Do some work, go to the gym, cook dinner, plan a fun weekend event, go to bed early. I fear I am fully institutionalized at this point.

Just finished Pikmin 4. I found it disappointing. I miss 1 and 2 which I see as complementary masterpieces.

Paying for software or software support is a genuine hurdle:

1. Ads
2. Sell user data
3. Subscription fee
4. Donations

Article ultimately focuses on 4 wanting to make it a social norm. I think this is wishful thinking. Businesses need hard legal or financial incentives to do anything. Adding a (stronger) tax break could work, but now you’ve added complexity to the tax code which means more loopholes. Suddenly paying for android is “teeeechnically” open source and you get abuse.

Seems like this is a solvable problem though.