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Ubuntu's trust problem in 4 concrete issues - verified facts, no FUD (media.piefed.social)
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[–] daychilde@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Your disagreement is not with me but the one asserting that we are the product anytime sometime is free.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

IDK man, this part of the thread is full of so many layers of irony, devil's advocates and kitchen sinks that I'm lost in the sauce and contributing to the discussion with my own viewpoints so that some people can learn something.

creases, taxes are extracted from the community replacing the amount spent making the public resource. As a result of decreased crime/anti-social/maladaptive behaviours, the community has lesser public costs associated with them).

Thus, you get more programmers that know what the fuck they are doing, you have an operating system you couldn’t have made by yourself, etc etc.