> every online service

This deserves a few qualifiers. I think this should be applied to any service that is

- "free" or "freemium"

- wrapped as a black box which gives no way out for customers.

There are plenty of companies out there who provide services based on FOSS, but we collectively shy away from paying them because it seems "silly" to pay for software that people can run for free.

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gmerc 2 days ago | parent [-]

24andme was not free. Any investor backed startup or PE acquirable will sell all assets to Peter Thiel ventures eventually to make some last cash.

Most AI startups will never be profitable.

	▲	rglullis 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		"23andme", you mean? They were not free, but they were not building their product on open standards, were they? So the don't my pass my filter as well.