Post AChBb8It6oML75GKIa by weirdconstructor@mastodon.online
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 (DIR) Post #ACh9OLW6TIfWQ7DcwK by be@fosstodon.org
       2021-10-24T16:25:47Z
       
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       @falktx No, they're responsible for not having their shit together enough to make something people want to use.
       
 (DIR) Post #AChA0ajYLNEYcQkLa4 by vital876@mastodon.social
       2021-10-24T16:32:42Z
       
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       @falktx You've got a point. It's difficult to compete with competently made free and open-source software, and I hadn't thought about that before.
       
 (DIR) Post #AChANxWtkt57ymyCWm by vital876@mastodon.social
       2021-10-24T16:36:56Z
       
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       @falktx You've got a point. It's *probably difficult for companies to compete with competently made free and open-source software, and I hadn't thought about that before.
       
 (DIR) Post #AChAYXRx3kuOHPhVtQ by weirdconstructor@mastodon.online
       2021-10-24T16:38:49Z
       
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       @falktx if you can make a commercial product obsolete with the little work you can put into a new code base as unpaid free software author, then the original threshold of originality was not very high. So the price of the commercial product was too high. Or do you mean VCV Rack?
       
 (DIR) Post #AChBb8It6oML75GKIa by weirdconstructor@mastodon.online
       2021-10-24T16:46:33Z
       
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       @falktx and honestly, a company developing a new product to beat competition does not think about the jobs of their competitors or ethics of their doing. Companies love to fight each other, with the employed people being their soldiers. There are no ethics in the free market, thats why it's regulated by (good) governments.
       
 (DIR) Post #AChC1L8o0CqCSO2igq by DCLXVI@mstdn.io
       2021-10-24T16:55:12Z
       
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       @falktx In this scenario are you advocating for using an inferior, non-free app/tool just to keep people employed? :ablobthinkingeyes:
       
 (DIR) Post #AChJQ9ynKwXil78u1I by DCLXVI@mstdn.io
       2021-10-24T18:18:09Z
       
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       @falktx Agreed. I didn't mean to reduce it to a black and white proposition. I've worked at a few places that used free software to different extents. For the most part the companies loved it and some paid more for sysadmins, devs and support than they did license fees to non-free software companies. It's just an anecdote and doesn't prove anything, but I like the free software ethos. There's definitely a place in the world for paid software too. I'm happy that RHEL exists and Debian too!