Completely unsupported assertions are the least interesting kinds of comment anyone can post.
Besides, this particular comment would need to explain why it’s likely that its unsupported opinion is correct, rather than all the counterexamples that exist in the actual highly competitive industry that’s heavily using this system.
There’s a fundamental conflict there that doesn’t work in favor of your inchoate opinion. The most likely conclusion is that there are factors at work here that you don’t understand.
Not only that, but the owners of big companies are actively lobbying to pay even less taxes. They are ideologically opposed to supporting public benefit projects.
Companies do worse than bleeding of the commons: lock down weak-licensed software and lock in users and devices. It totally reduces users ability to benefit from FOSS and reduces funding for developers.
Do you really think Peter Thiel is so poorly read that he doesn't understand the difference between socialism and communism?
I actually think pointing this out is a tell of how unread a person is on the subject actually. I can't even count how many times I have read this statement online in my life.
In everyday use though outside a Marxist philosophy circle, socialism is used as a blanket term for collectivism of all sorts and communism is the pejorative word for the same thing.
