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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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On Sat, 29 Mar 2025 14:01:40 +0000, John Rumm wrote:

> However keep in mind that paying for software from commercial vendors
> like MS also pays for large swathes of the "free" software you might
> otherwise choose, since many of those developers can only afford to
> donate time to open source projects only because they have income from a
> "money grabbing" software vendor.

If only that were true. Most of those money-grabbing businesses are too 
willing to take and not give back.

Then we have those users who complain about Free software not being as 
good as the proprietary stuff. If they would divert some of the money they 
give to the proprietary vendors and give it to the Free software 
developers, think how much better those products could be.