Comment on Microsoft celebrates 50 years

• misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Because some like proprietary and why would you make their lives harder? As long as it’s interoperable and a part of a broader healthy ecosystem there’s place for every approach.

  Like, I wouldn’t mind if someone made a proprietary Activity Pub Reddit alternative. They could compete on some UI features, support, moderation etc. The more the merrier and we could all still talk.

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  • SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Well, the only reason I can see them liking proprietary is because that money still exists and that money allows propietary companies (and open source to be fair) to do more. If money didn’t exist there would be no need for proprietary companies nor a need to ‘protect’ their ‘property’ and in my perfect world money doesn’t exist, therefore no need for proprietary code/products.

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    • misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I can be called a commie and won’t flinch at it but currency is useful, you just don’t need to fetishise it. People should be rewarded for their work as long as it’s not some form of rentierism, how to organise it isn’t that relevant because there are many ways to achieve it.

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      • SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I don’t think money or any form of it is the only way to reward people for their work (not that all people need a reward in that sense). I think that is it is might be because of this current system showing that the only way to be rewarded is through monetary compensation.

        Also, I’m going to quibble here that the only reason why a lot of jobs currently done require a ‘reward’ is because of the conditions under which people labour, remove those conditions and there will be less of a need for incentives to keep people doing things they either don’t like, or do like but not under such conditions such as long hours or under a strict hierarchy.

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