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by ethbro 3601 days ago
I'd make the statement a little more complex than the aphorism: "If you are not paying, and the system requires resources to operate, then you are the product."

Which I think strikes to the heart of why open source only ate specific parts of the world. Things that require resources to operate that users are normally happy about having in the modern world: network and server infrastructure, compatibility testing, support, security testing, UI updates.