The waves of what I'll call Software Socialism (see Champaign Socialism) are increasing in frequency on nostr. They look something like this:

“Why would VCs have designs to generate outsized returns from their investments in [X, Y, and Z] startups?”

“How dare [insert for-profit company] choose to charge for [insert feature]!”

“Why isn't this commercial product open sourced to the degree that meets my personal satisfaction?”

“They took outside capital and decided to change direction after considerable struggle, reflection, and effort? F*ck those guys!”

To which I'll offer:

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

―Theodore Roosevelt