Cory DoctorowToday's threads (a thread)
Inside: Even if you're paying for the product, you're still the product; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/luxury-surveillance/
1/
John Goerzen@pluralistic Cory Doctorow has some good thoughts here "even if you're paying for the product, you're still the product" and especially one of many recent debunkings of the "#Apple is good for #privacy" myth. https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/luxury-surveillance/
ArneBab@jgoerzen Here’s some more — old writings of mine about the "Apple helps Free Software"-myth: http://www.draketo.de/licht/politik/leserbriefe-und-kommentare/apple-helps-free-software-myth @pluralistic
The “Apple helps free software” myth | Zwillingssterns Weltenwald | 1w6
Mo, 03/12/2012 - 20:35 — Draketo → Comment to “apple supports a number of opensource projects. Webkit and CUPS come to mind”. Apple supports a number of copyleft projects, because they have to. They chose to profit from the work other people released as copyleft, and so they are obliged to release their improvements. Webkit Webkit is an especially good example... 1w6
@jgoerzen I guess someone will have to write a debunking of the "Microsoft helps Free Software"-myth soon …
Embrace with Github, VS-Code, and Edge.
Extend with Typescript.
Cast your bets when the Extinguish-phase starts.
If you bet on "soon": you’re too optimistic. It already started. Type erasure in the browser would force all browsers except Edge to fight a battle of attrition against changes in Typescript: https://youtu.be/3QEoJRjxnxQ?t=2996
