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  • Vinny_93@lemmy.worldtoUnpopular Opinion@lemmy.worldQueen sucks
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    19 days ago

    I totally agree but I suppose you have to note that at the time, it was somewhat unique.

    That said, pop music has been bland since the 70s. Rock has dominated the charts for decades and anything remotely experimental is just called ‘noise’ by boomers who just seem to want more of the same.

    The surge of dance music is a breath of fresh air that has become the same issue, but now affecting the next generation.



  • FOSS is free, OSS doesn’t have to be. Very often open source software, of which the commercial fork is being maintained by a company, that company will profit from businesses using the software. Idk about VLC but Moodle, for instance, is open source and updates for it are based on a subscription model.

    The license agreement for OSS will often state that you are free to use it in your own home, but if you start commercially using the software, they expect you to pay. Some open source projects can get resold by service providers this way to handle deployment of updates, provide support, et cetera.