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0 pointspalunon9y ago0 comments

>the ideology of having stuff for free,

Yeah, no. Having free stuff (as in speech), yeah. Having stuff for free ? That's not the UNIX culture...

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That is why there are so many successful commercial applications being sold on GNU/Linux.

If the desktop APIs break all the time and there are lots of incompatibilities between distributions, it is really hard to sell commercial applications on GNU/Linux.

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0 pointspalunon9y ago0 comments

>the ideology of having stuff for free,

Yeah, no. Having free stuff (as in speech), yeah. Having stuff for free ? That's not the UNIX culture...

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pjmlp9y ago

That is why there are so many successful commercial applications being sold on GNU/Linux.

wolfgke9y ago

If the desktop APIs break all the time and there are lots of incompatibilities between distributions, it is really hard to sell commercial applications on GNU/Linux.

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