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Free is too expensive (Economist)

Free is too expensive (Economist)

Posted Apr 2, 2012 10:42 UTC (Mon) by Seegras (subscriber, #20463)
In reply to: Free is too expensive (Economist) by jedidiah
Parent article: Free is too expensive (Economist)

> The software vendor also has the option of providing a Windows style GUI
> installer.

Oh yes. Make our lives a hell. Kick us in the balls and fuck us with a chainsaw.

THAT is exactly what nobody, EVER, should do. Making their own GUI installers, that is.

There is a _huge_ advantage Linux has (well, at least Debian and derivatives), and that is a working package-management. And anything that breaks this is not an improvement, but a regression.


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