XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: MikeS@fred.com   
      
   On 02/09/2025 09:42, wasbit wrote:   
   > On 01/09/2025 16:04, Marion wrote:   
   >> While aphorisms have truth deeply embedded, more often than not they   
   >> don't.   
   >>   "There¢s no such thing as a free lunch."   
   >>   "You get what you pay for."   
   >>   "Cheap is expensive."   
   >>   "If you're not paying for the product, you are the product."   
   >>   "When something is free, ask what it's costing you in privacy."   
   >>   "Convenience of freeware is just surveillance in disguise."   
   >>   "Privacy is dead, and free social media holds the smoking gun."   
   >>   
   >> What examples of freeware do you feel meet or do not meet these   
   >> aphorisms?   
   >> I'll start.   
   >>   
   >>   Irfanview meet my freeware & privacy expectations.   
   >>   Vpngate.net does not.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Free, as in beer, is an idea thought up by those who think they are   
   > intellectually superior. In my case they probably are but I'm not dumb   
   > enough to fall for their trick.   
   >   
   > Free means free to use at no cost.   
   > A free travel pass doesn't entitle you to drive the vehicle.   
   >   
   "Those who think they are intellectually superior" is a neat way to sum   
   up the situation. Even Stallman and the FSF admit there are only minor   
   differences between their "free" and everyone else's "open source"   
   licence. The vast majority of developers, websites and users refer to   
   the products as open source because it avoids confusion - and the   
   nonsense debate about the meaning of "free".   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)