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Sounds like a great way to stifle the innovation that tech is known for. The amount of well made free options in the tech sphere is part of why we can so effici
by NineStarPoint 6y ago
Sounds like a great way to stifle the innovation that tech is known for. The amount of well made free options in the tech sphere is part of why we can so efficiently start new companies.
- nix23 6y agoHe probably paid 10k of dollars for his Compiler like in the 80's.
- pjmlp 6y agoI surely not only paid for my compilers (started coding in 1986), also do donations every time I download a distro, buy books from all open source projects that are relevant for my work.
- type0 6y agoNot everyone is as fortunate as you are, some cs students in poor countries might also need a stable server OS that is not Debian. You could argue they shouldn't but this is in the spirit of open source: non-discriminatory access regardless of the economic situation. Do not reduce it to donationaware argument. When you buy RHEL you are buying the support access and not anything else.