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  • Velociraptor@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I wish we as a species would just drop this trend of having to eventually ruin a good thing just about every goddam time.

    • spoonful@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Closed source/centralized software always ends like this. It’s always “not my problem” with people when it comes to propriatory software dying until, of course, it is :(

    • rickcooker@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Tell me how! People expect all good things on the internet to be free on but there are costs.

    • Kilamaos@pathofexile-discuss.com
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      1 year ago

      Just has to do with some central person/group seeing a big pay day. Most people have a price tag at which they would sell just about anything.

      Well, people willing to pay for it must see some value in it, and obviously, they don’t want to lose that value. So they will do anything for that, including fucking over people