> But if you take my cookies, add sprinkles then resell them, I can expect a modest donation to keep the bakery running.

You cannot expect any such thing. You gave them away for free.

If you want to get paid, don't give your work away for free. If you give your work away for free, you cannot expect to get paid.

It's shocking how frequently people who deal in rigorous logic day in, day out are unable to understand this very simple principle.

Okay, then no one gets cookies. Mega corps expect bugs to be fixed and CDNs to work.

Rate limiting access is completely reasonable. It's a sad state of affairs, because eventually we're going to end up with an internet full of Docker Desktop gacha licenses.

You can only use this if you're not at work. If your using it as a corporation you need to expense a license, then finance says ohh wow, Docker Desktop is too expensive.

Use something significantly worse.

Every large FOSS project needs to figure out it's funding at some point.

I don't want a future where I can only reliably use projects controlled by multi-billion or trillion dollar corporations. .net core is fantastic, but it's ultimately a Microsoft project in everything but name.

If the dependencies wanted to get paid they should not have given their work away for free.

If you give your work away for free you cannot expect to get paid for it.

For people who deal with intractible logic all day it's amusing how much these simple facts fail to get through their thick skulls.

> If the dependencies wanted to get paid they should not have given their work away for free.

That’s not really a reasonable position. Nobody signs up for maintaining a library that most of the Internet depends upon with megacorps beating down their doors for an unpaid P0 fix. “They gave it away for free” doesn’t mean they are your eternal slave.

> First, because the social media is not reading, or newspapers, it's a different thing altogether

Are you suggesting that historical books and newspapers were not pandering to populist whims? Of course they did. Is the difference the precision of the targeting? That sounds like a difference of degree not of substance.

> It did create yellow journalism, it did create tabloids, it did redefine truth, and recalibrate leisure, and it did create doomscrolling, and make people think in different—and not necessarily better—ways.

It also created the article we just read and this web site to find it on.

> Maybe all we can do is listen to what people living through that change said

Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

You don't see the homeless people who keep themselves and their belongings out of your sight.

Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.

Now that is what a dry academic paper about cats is supposed to look like. Cat pictures on every page.

We have conkers in London.

FFI is the shell's only job.

That's so much better than bourne/bash, which requires this monstrous wart of a code blob:

autossh() {

        # Tiny delay after failure in case of connection errors

        while ! ssh "$@"; do echo Restarting ssh "$@"...; sleep 1; done

}

Is supporting wordpress development part of the license offered by wordpress that WP Engine agreed to?

No?

If you don't want people to use your stuff, don't give it away for free.

> there's nothing wrong with publicizing that they don't give much in return

That would be the case IF giving back was part of the deal which they are therefore reneging on. It was not. You are in the wrong.