hayvan

Under Communism, probably public domain. Under Capitalism definitely GPL.

“Who do you trust, and who do you serve?”

License. The owner of the source can still limit what you can (legally) do with it.

That’s the most outrageous part. The most obviously fraudulent company being given fast track to s&p 500 (although I just read that decision was overturned) NASDAQ100 just reeks of corruption.

EDIT: thanks for the correction. I don’t know much about USA or their economic stuff.

It’s unfortunately bigger than just the suckers being suckered. These things also get pumped a lot by “early investors”, whose strategy is to get the stock immediately and sell quickly to take adventage of the initial surge. They increase the demand a lot and contribute to that surge.

Which is the worst part. They are just tools of the power in charge.

This meme is my pet peeve, it annoys me so much. It cannot be further from the truth.

Valve doesn’t do nothing. They intentionally operate their platform in ways that keep customers satisfied, while making long term investments into hardware and OS development. That’s not “nothing”. That’s doing a lot of things right.