I've been on vacation, so I haven't been
following the Stack Overflow moderator
strike.1 Not that there has
been much progress. Negotiations stalled for a variety of
reasons. Meanwhile
Stack Overflow's CEO, Prashanth Chandrasekar, dug the company's hole a
bit deeper during an interview with
VentureBeat.
Not to be confused with the [Writers and Actors Guilds ↩
Answer my original question first and you have your proof or not. If you can’t answer, there’s your proof.
Yeah, information was freely traded before the advent of capitalism, and you’re still free to walk over to your neighbor’s house and ask questions about your code, but they’re not going to be near the quality of a large scale service like SO.
Where do you expect the resources to come from to have and serve content reliably? They don’t run on hatred of capitalism, they run on money.
I’m pretty sure there’s a “hatred of capitalism” cable going in every Stack Overflow server rack! Don’t believe it? Well just answer my question, if you can’t, then there’s your proof
Prove your claim first then ask him to prove his. Even you yourself just admitted such things existed before capitalism. Therefore you concede his point. Prove your point.
In the early days of the internet, most content was not financially motivated. It was motivated by wanting to connect and a genuine altruistic feeling