Path: ...!news-out.netnews.com!postmaster.netnews.com!us2.netnews.com!not-for-mail X-Trace: DXC=g>39VQSNo:=;[O?RegEO@=HWonT5<]0T=Q;nb^V>PUf65[gZBW6J?L@oN;JD0Z3>>DPPO:X9V2;;4ED0^LJX53_;13J7?Z0 Subject: Re: Windows 10 Pro, $5 USD, Still Ripoff Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy References: <663d5a8d$0$6426$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> User-Agent: Pan/0.146 (Hic habitat felicitas; d7a48b4 gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pan.git) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 10 May 2024 00:56:08 GMT Lines: 14 Message-ID: <663d70a8$0$8494$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 X-Trace: 1715302568 reader.netnews.com 8494 127.0.0.1:57829 Bytes: 1459 On Fri, 10 May 2024 00:32:17 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > On 09 May 2024 23:21:49 GMT, Andrzej Matuch wrote: > >> It's a very small price to pay if all you're looking to do is try it >> out. > > Seems like you cannot get through your workday with proprietary software > without being dishonest. Most of the software I use is open-source, but in a proprietary operating system where the default office suite is also proprietary. I make no apology about this: I'm quite comfortable using the superior product to do the job.