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>Then those people are lying. Free is absolutely a factor for many. Source? Because if money is a problem you install Windows and live with the not genuime not
by simion314 8y ago
>Then those people are lying. Free is absolutely a factor for many.
Source?
Because if money is a problem you install Windows and live with the not genuime notification in the corner or you run some app that removes that too. I do not have data with numbers but please provide yours since you accused people of lying.
- coldtea 8y ago>I do not have data with numbers but please provide yours since you accused people of lying. In a world when most things are based on money, you need proof that cost, and even more importantly, free, is a factor? I, for one, have used OSS tools that are free over better paid tools, because cost is a factor. (I've also used others because they are better or because they have bigger community -- but cost has always been a factor). >Because if money is a problem you install Windows and live with the not genuime notification in the corner or you run some app that removes that too. That's not an option on professional servers and businesses -- which is where I'm mostly basing my statement. If they started paying for the free stuff they use (not even going from Postgres to Oracle, but from e.g. Centos to RedHat) they'd be closing shop.
- simion314 8y agoOK, I was refering at the desktop users, the one that wipe the valid Windows installation on the PC and put Linux on it, it is not the money in this case. For enterprise software everyone not only users but companies will first try the free stuff, but honestly even if my companies pays for a library if there is an open source alternative I will try that first because many time we hit bugs in closed source stuff and we could not fix that ourselves and the product was abandones.