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Re:Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed ... by sfifs on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @08:57PM (#19437828)
Not at all. I very much prefer vanilla Ubuntu front end of my personal laptop to MS Windows. I am still on Win 7 on my work laptop so it is tolerable but I'm definitely going Mac instead of Win 10 abomination next upgrade.
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Re:Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed ... by pjmlp on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @02:08AM (#19439467)
Don't forget to get a keyboard and screen insurance on top of the premium price.
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Re:Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed ... by coldtea on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @04:39AM (#19440124)
I will, for one. I thought you were OK with paying for good stuff, like Lisp compilers/IDEs or other tooling.

Suddenly it's bad to charge a premium?

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Re:Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed ... by pjmlp on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @06:19AM (#19440629)
I am quite confortable paying for stuff, do it all the time.

What I don't do is to pay premium for the previlege to use keyboards that break down with a single dust particle and screens that get scratched with the laptop's own keyboard, that might not be replaced without the additional Apple Care package.

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