[capitalistLove]

This writer clearly doesn't understand the Free Software movement.

" For reasons that are complicated and that I don't fully understand, the software development community in the eighties and nineties developed a culture of anti-capitalism and liberal values that put technology on a pedestal for its own sake. Open source good; commercial software bad. Free software good; commercial software bad.

I'm not entirely unsympathetic to such ideas, but it's seems clear, now, that these ideas have had unintended consequences. The idea of free software, for example, has led to a software economy where you, the user, are no longer the customer, but the product. "

Free software is free as in freedom, not free as in you don't have to pay for it. If Google & co followed the ideals of free software, all of their source code for their servers would be available to the public, and indivuduals would be free to spin up and run their own google that doesn't use ads.

This writer has no idea what he is talking about, its not worth reading this post.