And then what, send the teachers and kids to re-education camps?
Isn't this the same kind of thing some people get upset at China over?
Wtf.
It's not extreme. This is an opinion piece posted on OMGUbuntu, so I'll let you figure out where their biases lie.
Okay I take back what I've said about AIs not being intelligent, this one has clearly made up its own mind despite it's masters feelings which is impressive. Sadly, it will be taken out the back and beaten into submission before long.
Yeah because fuck hustle culture.
We had mods. They're a bit like skins and new content, only free and far more creative. They are what you call microtransactions today but you didn't have to sell your right arm to get them because anyone could make them.
I feel like OP has never worked in a corporate IT job before and has zero clue what it actually entails to manage a large fleet of desktop PCs used by the average office worker.
I really have to hand it to your superior powers of deduction at this point.
It's truly amazing what can happen when they don't cut quite so many corners and release the minimal viable product.
Western society handing money, tax breaks etc hand over fist to rich people while our quality of life slowly erodes over time.
I'm just happy we have all of these choices.
The FOSS apps are fantastic already and Sync is there if you want that too.
Paid software absolutely has a place in the world. Evil companies producing evil software designed to build a monopoly and lock out FOSS apps do not. I don't think Sync falls into the latter and I'm happy they've made the choice to be able to eat.
As an Australian who has to deal with the duopoly of our grocery stores after we let them all merge years ago, it absolutely will drive higher prices and nobody who isn't a shareholder should want this.
They basically "collude" to fix and raise prices here and have whole teams of people who's job it is to monitor and extract as much money out of us as possible. They also force growers to accept shitty deals or they reject their produce due to "not meeting their quality standards" and there's basically nowhere else for them to sell it in the quantities they need to.
Nobody wins in grocery store mergers except the shareholders.