Well, you pay for it at least, and hence enter into a contract with the service provider. A free GitHub account is a come-on by Microsoft to enmesh you further in the world of hosted services - the precise thing this manifesto is complaining about
I'm not sure how you can read the opening paragraphs of the manifesto and come to that conclusion:
> Today the Web and Internet is owned and controlled by large for profit corporations and a few governments1. Corporate ownership combined with government policies has left us as tenant and product. It has given us a surveillance economy and enshittification
> What if I do not wish to be tenant and product?
> What can I do to change the equation?
> Those two questions lead me to a bigger question.
> What happens when ownership and control of hardware and software shifts from the domain of corporations to a world where a significant percentage are owned by individual people and cooperatives?
Well, you pay for it at least, and hence enter into a contract with the service provider. A free GitHub account is a come-on by Microsoft to enmesh you further in the world of hosted services - the precise thing this manifesto is complaining about
I don't think the manifesto says anything about that actually.
I'm not sure how you can read the opening paragraphs of the manifesto and come to that conclusion:
> Today the Web and Internet is owned and controlled by large for profit corporations and a few governments1. Corporate ownership combined with government policies has left us as tenant and product. It has given us a surveillance economy and enshittification
> What if I do not wish to be tenant and product?
> What can I do to change the equation?
> Those two questions lead me to a bigger question.
> What happens when ownership and control of hardware and software shifts from the domain of corporations to a world where a significant percentage are owned by individual people and cooperatives?