[drumhead]

The days of community and cooperation are coming to an end. Reddit ditches the relationship it had with it's users, and now Red Hat is turning into more of a proprietary software company. Did we take the spirit of the old internet for granted? Who's next I wonder.

[havnagiggle]

I see lots of people standing up for good principles. The status quo is trying to cash in on complacency, but IMO it's just a catalyst for good things to come. People that know why they picked RHEL also know why they will be moving on.

[_ea1k]

In many respects, I feel like it already ended.

- How many companies still offer free APIs for access to their data? This used to be amazingly common. Now, even my garage door wants a paywall. - Google bragged about not selling search placement. But is what they are doing now really any different than the old keyword buying engines? - How many people still use email? And of those, how many just use gmail, effectively giving Google a near-monopoly - It used to be that MS Office competed with other office suites and there was a lot of talk pushing for long term interoperability. But all of that seemingly died with the shift to online services.

Free as in speech is in worse shape now than it was 20 years ago.