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If the product is free, the user is the product
No, the adverts are the product.
This whole notion that nothing can be free needs to get in the bin.
Linux is free. Who's selling the user data for that?
Lemmy is free, who's the product there?
Yes, Facebook/Meta is a shady fucking company and they are indeed selling your data on top of the ads they sell, but don't lump everything free into the same bucket.
Well, Linux really is just like a traditional product were the user pays to get their get their use cases supported. Except they've short-circuited the whole paying thing to where users directly hire people for the work (for the most part).
Dude you're tripping
Yeah, NGL, couldn't follow what they were trying to say in that one.
The users in this case are big companies. Companies pay developers directly to get features or hardware supported, developers which then send patches to the kernel team, or are a part of the kernel team (very short version).
The rest of us are just freeloaders. Hope that clears it up.