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It’s the End of the Web as We Know It (www.theatlantic.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The largest code contributors to Linux are corporate contributions
Regular people who contribute to OSS do so as a passion project, as a hobby, and have other unrelated jobs that pay the bills. Those people still have to make a living, they're just not doing it from their software contributions. Journalism isn't a hobby and you can't work a day job and still be an effective journalist. News orgs don't come together as hobby projects.

I'm not defending advertising. I hate it and think it's ruined the web. I'm just addressing the analogy here wrt Linux.