Their point is to answer the question “who is going to consent to Google telemetry on linux”. 99% of humanity, that’s who.
Corporations can plaster over the open source baseline to make a Product, at which point Consumers will feel the comfort and familiarity of being able to displace responsibility for their satisfaction onto someone else in exchange for a price, such as their privacy.
Consider the Capitalist adage “If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product”. How would that belief affect how someone feels about baseline Linux, about FOSS in general? They would constantly be waiting for the catch, for the monetization or hack or cult pitch or communism that explains why people are spending their time contributing to FOSS instead of making money.
Their point is to answer the question “who is going to consent to Google telemetry on linux”. 99% of humanity, that’s who.
Corporations can plaster over the open source baseline to make a Product, at which point Consumers will feel the comfort and familiarity of being able to displace responsibility for their satisfaction onto someone else in exchange for a price, such as their privacy.
Consider the Capitalist adage “If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product”. How would that belief affect how someone feels about baseline Linux, about FOSS in general? They would constantly be waiting for the catch, for the monetization or hack or cult pitch or communism that explains why people are spending their time contributing to FOSS instead of making money.
Corporations are the devil they know.