I know a lot of us use ad-blockers and the like so we don’t see ads often anymore. But we can get some insight as to how much certain “services” make by showing ads to the average customer when they have paid ad-free subscriptions available. YouTube, for example. Maybe streaming services.
I’m curious how much most things would cost in this case, especially since so many “services” tend to have maintenance and upkeep costs.
How much would Facebook cost to use if it were ad-free? Snapchat? Windows? (Which is extra gross for having all of an up-front cost, ads embedded, AI included, and pushes for paid subscriptions of its own complementary products…)
Linux actually has a lot of people that get paid to work on it, especially nitty-gritty stuff like the kernel and drivers. Lots of multi-billion dollar companies rely on that stuff, so they often have some of their employees work some or even all of their working hours on FOSS.
Linus Torvalds himself is an employee of Red Hat, developing Linux is his entire job.
Fascinating! Thanks for educating me!