When Free Means Shut Up
The internet is going to hell. Yes, I know I’m making a bold claim here, but bear with me. I am sick of everyone thinking everything should be free. When the hell did this crap start? Just because it’s on the internet, it should be free? I don’t think so.
Computers aren’t free. Internet service isn’t free.
Free is nice, don’t get me wrong, but the idea that anyone offering something for free has an obligation to the people who take the free thing is beyond presumptuous.
I read a comment recently on a site where the site owner was making a highly useful piece of software freely available, and a user had the nerve to chastise (in the ugliest, most ungrateful way possible) the software creator for not making the software usable by "EVERYONE" because "software should be able to be used by EVERYONE" and said user was "not happy" with the software creator. How disgusting. This was several paragraphs of complaint and censure and frankly, it irritated me to no end.
I wondered why this unhappy user didn’t just go buy some software that was better suited to their computer.
It’s not the complaints that are the problem here. It’s the user’s unbelievable gall in thinking the software creator has the obligation to make their software not only free but to make it acceptable for anyone who might ever want to use it.
Why are people like this? What is it about the internet that makes people believe everything should be free and that free stuff has an obligation to be good?
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