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- fucksubscriptions
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- fucksubscriptions
Exciting news for who? Only the site owner is excited that a free resource now requires a subscription
“Yay! Now I have to pay another subscription! I’m so excited! Let’s celebrate with them!” - nobody
Let’s be clear in one thing:
That’s it. Everything in the Universe, including you, has a “price” on energy. Now outside of all crony-capitalism craziness, we should all consider having a open, distributed, fair price Internet and it’s resources.
I’m calling Louis.
Plenty of places provide free lunches. They’re still paid for, but they’re free at the point of service. Eg homeless shelters, Wikipedia.
I can’t believe that all this time I could have been getting my lunch for free at wikipedia.org
Jimmy Wales serves it himself, with a side of the softcore porn he first made his fortune on.
That’s an unorthodox side dish to say the least, but I suppose beggars can’t be choosers.
Wikipedia is a lunch for your brain
Sikh gurdwaras will also serve free food
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Yes but nobody owes you the maintenance of a centralized service.
If the software and content is open source then the community can choose to take over for an org that doesn’t have the will power to keep a costly free-of-charge service running.
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I hear you. But it takes the will and dedication to do it, so it’s really not a life sentence to offer a proprietary service free of charge. Hopefully the people who need it most can find a better alternative.
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The “free” in FOSS stands for free like freedom, not free like air
FOSS projects cost time and money. Non-profits still need money. Not sure why everyone thinks everything should be free of monetary charges on the internet.
Am am not sure what the situation of opensubtitles is. Is it just barely covering costs? Or turning a profit? I have no idea. But i do hate how everyone thinks they’re entitled to free work and free hosting costs of every website on the internet
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Uhhhhh. The article you linked says nothing about “free as in air”, which is the term you used. And thats the only reason i used it
Free as in speech or free as in freedom are the english similes to express the idea of libre
Free air or free beer are gratis. Without monetary cost.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre?wprov=sfla1
Free software is always libre and sometimes gratis