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   From: wasbit@REMOVEhotmail.com   
      
   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.   
      
      
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   wasbit   
      
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