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Free is too expensive (Economist)

Free is too expensive (Economist)

Posted Apr 1, 2012 19:40 UTC (Sun) by robert_s (subscriber, #42402)
In reply to: Free is too expensive (Economist) by Cyberax
Parent article: Free is too expensive (Economist)

"Personally, I'm willing to sacrifice some usability of 'apt-get install' to get commercial applications and games on Linux."

Not interested thanks.


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Free is too expensive (Economist)

Posted Apr 2, 2012 11:33 UTC (Mon) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106) [Link]

Personally, I'm willing to include a stable platform and software installation mechanism that third party developers (including commercial ones) would be able to support and willing to use if it means that the market share of Linux, and thus the aggregate freedom of all people, goes up by an order of magnitude.

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