I think it should be the very first point in his list. Trust in software is a thing that is increasingly lacking in the general population, and not without reasons. Being actually trustworthy is increasingly valuable.
Better Than Free (2008) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28129338 - Aug 2021 (3 comments)
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When something goes wrong with a digital product and the problem needs to be resolved, you will only get help if you've paid and there is a business behind the product and a legal system in place to allow for recourse - getting your money back, resolving the problem etc.
If you downloaded that product for free, you have no recourse because there is no authority providing any service beyond the data itself.
Funny, I think the opposite.
> In short, the money in this networked economy does not follow the path of the copies. Rather it follows the path of attention, and attention has its own circuits.
Well said!
Once anything that can be copied is brought into contact with internet, it
will be copied, and those copies never leave. Even a dog knows you can’t
erase something once it’s flowed on the internet.
I wish people would stop repeating this trope. The internet does forget. Try pulling up any blog post or article that's more than two or three years old. Click on some of the links. How many of them are still up? Of the ones that are down, how many were saved by the Internet Archive?Our culture is thus stolen from us, little bits at a time.
You say forever, but I surf alone with out history
[1] https://twitter.com/nbcsnl/status/1393642340078731269