> No one said it was.

Fair enough, a minority of businesses are run as public benefit corporations. But the vast majority is ran to generate profit. Bending Spoons especially.

> I wouldn't want to be just another tool to "extract" things from my customers

I assume you're independently wealthy and acquired said wealth from a generous donor who gave it to you with no expectations in return?

Because otherwise we're all "extracting" something.

I take pride in my work too and I believe the prices I charge for my services are fair - but nevertheless if I gave the choice to my clients between paying me for those services or getting them for free, they'd prefer free.

> This the type of thinking that gave us Windows 11

What's giving us enshittification and the terrible quality of software nowadays is the lack of healthy competition, because of lacking anti-trust enforcement and adversarial interoperability being effectively illegal. Companies thus take their customers hostage and raise prices/decrease quality.

Ideally we'd just make competition in tech a reality again which would put a limit on enshittification.