Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoI’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 1 day ago
Sounds like you’re cherry picking both; I’ve seen plenty of garbage that costs money as well.
Honytawk@feddit.nl 1 day 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.
qqq@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
This is also far from my personal experience, you might not even realize what free software you’re depending on?
Your browser is most likely the most complex piece of software you interact with daily and it is most likely FOSS. The Linux kernel is FOSS and is incredibly robust. Most compiler suites, FOSS. Most programming languages, FOSS. These are all incredibly well written and robust tools. AOSP, kinda FOSS and the forks like Graphene are definitely FOSS. Hell even a lot of macOS programs are actually FOSS.
There is great paid and proprietary software out there, sure, but no it’s not the majority of top quality software in my personal experience and likely a lot of people’s experiences
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
They are used due to support not quality. Companies need to be able tp purchase service and support agreements and very often FOSS has none of that.