XPost: comp.lang.c++   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:57:21 -0600, Lynn McGuire wrote:   
      
   > It is very hard to compete with the price of free.   
      
   Tell that to the sellers of bottled water. ;)   
      
   > DWSIM has a very loyal following and many of them participate in the   
   > programming of new features.   
      
   That’s the way Open Source should be. Too often we see people   
   complaining that some app doesn’t have features that they desperately   
   need, so they have to go back to paid proprietary software. Completely   
   overlooking the fact that, if they put some of that money they would   
   pay the proprietary software vendor towards sponsoring the development   
   of some of the features they need, the result would benefit everybody.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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