• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    I’m sorry but “you need to use better applications” is very funny to read when most of the time the Linux open source alternative will never be as good as the product made by the company that has hundreds of paid employees working on it.

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      2 days ago

      Except most big open source project are developed by companies, and only the tiny ones aren’t. This applies to all open source projects on all platforms.

      Also, most of them already are better. People just don’t want to change their layouts and workflows. And people also don’t value privacy, which if they would, they wouldn’t rate the proprietary software as half as good.

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      2 days ago

      made by the company that has hundreds of paid employees working on it.

      You’d have a point there, if the company’s aim was solely to make a better product; it’s been increasingly about increasing their margins at the expense of the users, advertising as much as possible and buying out the competition.

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      2 days ago

      otoh a lot of the most useful and enduring software ever made has been made by volunteers in their spare time