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Re:Alternatives to Google Products by gear54rus on Sunday June 10, 2018 @11:22PM (#17281507)
He's telling you about the fact that there's conflict of interest between you and crapple and you tell him an anecdote where some scum of this earth stole money and open source software was involved. Does this really sound like a compelling argument?
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Re:Alternatives to Google Products by mattkevan on Monday June 11, 2018 @12:39AM (#17281847)
Yes. There are bad and good actors on all sides.

Just because something is closed source doesn’t make it bad. And just because something is open doesn’t automatically make it good.

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Re:Alternatives to Google Products by gear54rus on Monday June 11, 2018 @05:57AM (#17283052)
It does however increase the chance that it will be bad, because the average snake that produces closed source software is likely to be motivated by greed, so it has the incentive to milk you as hard as it can without turning you away from products (using lies of course, you can't check anything after all, it's closed shit).

But seeing sibling explanation being downvoted into oblivion makes me think no one is interested in discussing this anyway so why waste breath.

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