• OceanSoap@lemmy.ml
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      The people who are actually angry tend to be FOSS advocates. I think they were assuming Sync would have a FOSS type option for users, and were surprised that wasn’t the case.

      The rest of us just think it’s funny.

      I’m a sync user, btw

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      Well you see, it’s important to aggressively gatekeep anything that people start to use and enjoy.

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      If you are not paying for Sync you are getting ads. So you are still paying (attention, data, you are the product).

      Additionally proprietary software has some long term disadvantages that are not visible at first. This is why one needs to always inform people about it as they do not understand these disadvantages.

      The biggest issue is that the owners of the proprietary code can change its course whenever they like it. See for example the Reddit Apollo Dev who would have sold out the community for 10 million dollars:

      See his own published audio and the discussion on HN:

      https://christianselig.com/apollo-end/reddit-third-call-may-31-end.m4a

      https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36245906