Enshittification

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What is enshittification?

The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source

The lifecycle of Big Internet

We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.

Embrace, extend and extinguish

We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.

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[–] Honytawk 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

PDF is copyrighted by Adobe (or something similar).

That is why all the PDF editors are paid for, since they need to pay a license to Adobe in order to be allowed to edit PDFs.

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Isnt it owned by ISO Nowadays but they charge for the standard (correct me if am wrong)