Are folks really pressuring independent artists, authors, etc., not to promote their work here?
Do you also picket your local independent cafe and mom and pop stores? What happens if you succeed in shutting them down? That’s right, you end up with a McDonald’s in their place.
Please learn to separate capitalists from folks trying to survive under capitalism. Independent people trying to pay their rent isn’t advertising, it’s existing. What Coca-Cola does is advertising.
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@aral Absolutely. I enjoy people promoting the stuff they build, it's a completely valid way to talk about their ideas. That's what building stuff is, how else will we discover them?
This place is not just about witty banter - that's fun, but it doesn't really show me what's out there.
I want people to build things and i want to know about it and engage with them.
Corporations doing bland advertisements though? Completely different thing, and i definitely don't like that.
@chrisg @aral where do you draw the line? A corporation is a collection of people. The accomplishments of large collaborative works aren't worthy of free speech?
OSS has such a good concept of "free" -- as in freedom -- and that is why it is so successful: it can be freely used in the real world. So strange for an OSS project to them reject that paradigm.
@Thoracius @chrisg @aral That's ridiculous. Corporations are about greed and hoarding resources to appease shareholders. People on the base level are kept desperate enough with low payments and lack of better employment to work there as the lesser of two evils.
Don't you dare equal THAT to an artisan selling craft to pay the rent.
Freeze peach truly is the preferred excuse of assholes ugh
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