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submitted 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) by Gemini24601@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds have apparently never met in person before, despite their pseudo-rivalry.

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[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I've used my share of free software. Some of it worked well, but it always felt clunky, and just never as straightforward to use as a paid product.

But sure, I couldn't possibly have reached that conclusion on my own, it's obviously the marketing.

[–] qqq@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds like you're cherry picking both; I've seen plenty of garbage that costs money as well.

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 1 points 2 hours ago

Sure, but if you look at the top quality softwares, the majority of them are paid.

Because money is a big encouragement to make them as flawless as possible. Something FOSS just doesn't have.