It's not about things being free. Money exists without capitalism. This is my biggest gripe with people who label any criticism of capitalism as a some socialist agenda. The cold war has been over for decades. Move on.
DI.fm feels like they are going to just fold at any time. They had a big three day outage a month or two back. They couldn't be bothered with any kind of redundancy in their infrastructure and a single podunk datacenter outage took them out.
None of their channels that I listen to have had playlist changes in the last three years.
I removed my autorenew a few months back and my subscription is finally going to end here in just a week or two, but I've not really been listening anyway. I've been buying albums and going through my list of artists that I've wanted to check out for awhile and getting my listening done that way.
But they also move the gatekeeper from the distribution to Canonical, and only Canonical (sideloading does not count when the repo is hard coded and server is closed source).
In early 2000 a lot of photographers were saying that digital photography is not "real", it doesn't have a "soul", it should not be allowed in photo contests and it's just worthless in general.
To be fair, early-2000s digital cameras were ... not great. 4 megapixels if you're lucky (not that megapixels are the only thing that matters, but they do matter, up to at least 20 megapixels).
Moderately confident, but not 100% certain. I believe my dreams are normally longer than these experiences, and that my dreams have not involved my actual environment since I was in pre-school.
The idea that people can die does not provide much support here. It's easy to imagine doomsday scenarios for any technology or human behaviour. If you want to claim that a particular way of conducting R&D is reckless, it's on you to come up with convincing evidence.
It seems they treat this as an irreversible mistake.