Makes me think that platforms banning Trump after Jan 6 were just kissing up to Biden coming in. Maybe there is just a cycle of capitalist sucking up.

+1.

I wish we had type c but all cables were labeled with clear functionality from the start. I don’t like data/power only cables.

I’m guessing this is a cost thing. You don’t need to pay for fact checking anymore.

… still obnoxious and pushing us towards a dead echo chamber internet. Get ready for AI personalities voting on community notes.

That relies on donations which may or may not come. I understand in a perfect world that makes sense, but in the real world even those foundations often rely on corporate muscle. Without that enterprise money, I’m not sure how they’d stand.

This is probably a minority opinion, but I think OSS prospers most when there is corporate muscle behind it.

A company with paid engineers that puts engineering time into fixing and bettering open source software can possibly be a good company.

Closed source ends up being the worst of all worlds. If there is an issue, you’re stuck waiting for someone else to possibly fix it. At least in open source, either you can try to fix it, or you can pay someone else to try to fix it.

At the end of the day, I think a lot of the Linux success actually comes down to this.