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yoz-y on Aug 20, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why ElementaryOS Left Medium

I wonder if they could have started as a sort of readability/patreon style platform for text without taking any investment and build just enough audience to become profitable. I imagine that running their servers should not be massively expensive, especially if they scaled up slowly.

wastedhours on Aug 20, 2019 [–]

But then you look at Ev's history and realise that's probably not a direction he'd have been exploring unfortunately.

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