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From: wasbit <wasbit@REMOVEhotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Laptop replacement
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2025 09:58:13 +0100
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On 30/03/2025 07:19, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 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.
> 

Why don't you apply that argument to car manufacturers? They make a 
number of variations of the same car.

I have always been grateful for free software.

It's backward thinking & greedy to expect the best of everything for 
free just because it's available.


-- 
Regards
wasbit