"You get what you pay for"
On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 03:19:53PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > "You get what you pay for" is a "rent seekers paradise" meme. > > "You get what you pay for" applies in the proprietary software | > platform | app world. > > In the Free Libre and Open Source Software world, often you pay zero > dollars; > > and there's some expectation that there may be a greater learning > curve, though this is by no means certain; > > and there is always access to the source code, along with certain > modification and distribution rights to that source code. > > So in this latter case of FLOSS, you pay no $, but you get very great > / significant freedoms. You might make some sacrifices, but over the > long term, you get collective benefits for those sacrifices. > > The "you get what you pay for" meme is a leading phrase in that it > leads the speaker or listener into a dichotomy around money - pay > money and get benefits, pay no money and be treated as the product > (i.e., get treated badly) - but this is all in the context of > proprietary software. > > Services around FLOSS software can provide "pay $ for it" options for > those who require or need this, and can afford the dollars, and the > long term benefit of this is an industry built around freedom and > rights respecting technologies. More such long term thinking might be > useful at this point in history. > > Create your world, > > > > > On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 02:44:35PM +1000, Nadine Earnshaw wrote: > > You get what you pay for > > > > > > https://crypviser.network/ > > > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > >> On 13 Jun 2019, at 12:19 pm, Zenaan Harkness <z...@freedbms.net> wrote: > > >> > > >> On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 06:45:31PM -0700, Razer wrote: > > >> Pepe Escobar reported it that way first thing this morning. ZERO > > >> reportage via a google search. Telegram twitter account thread called it > > >> MASSIVE: https://twitter.com/telegram/status/1138768124914929664?s=19 > > >> Rr > > > > > > Stay strong and keep clarity, fam! > > > > > > Live in the inbetweenerwebs. Gorilla pockets. Independent automous > > > communicating pods, pairs, individuals. > > > > > > Simplify your stacks. Clear your webs. Track your logables. > > > > > > The deep throaters, I mean deep staters are thrashing at the moment, > > > a lashing and a gnashing in the agony of limiting restricting > > > reducing contracting gibs - the almighty Ewe Ess Dollah be on the way > > > down, the other kids startin to play different games, leaving the > > > bully on his own. > > > > > > Bully aware of coming isolation, growing global antipathy, the > > > consequences of many decades, centuries of evil, reaping what was > > > raped. > > > > > > Good intentions, awareness and many good things are demonized, > > > demonically deemed evil so that war, gore and murder can be > > > glorified, lionized, statutorized, dictated, dominated, all dissent > > > and exposure utterly crushed under sociopathic murderous power. > > > > > > Good luck and create your world,