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On 2024-05-14, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
> On Tue, 14 May 2024 00:42:29 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> On 14 May 2024 00:11:11 GMT, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>> 
>>> So, it would be beneficial to open-source developers to make sure that
>>> their software breaks easily and crashes, so as to sell the support.
>> 
>> Clearly you have never used the stuff.
>> 
>> No, actually, you are depending crucially on it right now, without
>> realizing it. Without Open Source, there would be no Internet.
>
> We both know that's not true. Without open-source, there would have been 
> an alternative based on UNIX or Windows. Linux is chosen because it's good 
> enough and free, not because it is necessarily better.

It may not "necessarily" be better — it's just IS better.

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