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>Both are acceptable, even in polite society... Proprietary is not acceptable. Profit-driven can be acceptable, but time and again we've seen that companies d

>Both are acceptable, even in polite society... Proprietary is not acceptable. Profit-driven can be acceptable, but time and again we've seen that companies driven by profits don't make decisions in the best interests of their users, i.e. you.

coldtea 7y ago
>Proprietary is not acceptable. Do you speak for everybody? Because you can pry Sublime Text, Final Cut Pro X or Cubase from my dead hands, and all those are proprietary... >Profit-driven can be acceptable, but time and again we've seen that companies driven by profits don't make decisions in the best interests of their users, i.e. you. We've seen time and again than FOSS project leaders also don't make decisions in the best interests of their users. And we've also seen that just their being open source just raises the chances of somebody having the will/resources/knowledge/time to fork them and do them right from 0% (for proprietary) to near 0 (for FOSS). As for me, one of said users, doing it, it's 0% in both cases.