2026-10-10 13:58 UTC
Replies (5)
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@flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 2026-10-11 04:15
If there is no intention to put the screws to the user base, then why do it on the first place? We all know how this game ends when venture capital gets involved.
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@Mustachius_Grumpius@thelemmy.club 2026-10-10 13:59
yeah but its typical double speak
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@giant_smeeg@feddit.uk 2026-10-10 15:27
Yup. All CURRENT, these will start to diverge…
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@freely1333@reddthat.com 2026-10-10 16:03
I kinda thought the paid plan already had extra features no? Like silly ones but I swear it isn’t just donations right?
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@badgermurphy@lemmy.world 2026-10-10 16:17
Unfortunately, there is no historical example where this hasn’t turned predatory. It’s a tale as old as venture capital has been in software development: get free contributions from altruistic people donating their time and expertise to your FOSS project that you’re selling make a closed-source set of extensions as optional dependencies slowly diverge the closed source feature set to include developer and user “must-haves” you do not contribute upstream slow or functionally halt open source contributions It is an oft-repeated long con to pull off a mass heist of donated skill and time while imposing vendor lock-in on your users through a back door. "As the poison spread through his body, the frog cried out, “Why did you sting me? You have killed us both!” The scorpion replied, “I couldn’t help it. It’s my nature.”