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Re:EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales ... by blooalien on Sunday July 11, 2021 @11:07AM (#27801406)
> "people here have a problem accepting foss because they see windows as free so what benefit is switching to ubuntu?"

Because even if they gave you Windows free of cost, Windows has never been free as in freedom, and probably never will be. That's the thing people seem unable to wrap their brains around about FOSS is that it's about freedom, not cost. The fact that it's also cost-free is just added bonus that nobody in their right mind should complain about.

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Re:EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales ... by fao_ on Sunday July 11, 2021 @12:12PM (#27802032)
How many times have you altered Firefox, though? Or Chromium? Or GIMP? Or any other large software project?

Free as in freedom doesn't mean shit when codebases are so large as to be inscrutable and induplicable.

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Re:EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales ... by blooalien on Thursday July 15, 2021 @08:42AM (#27844037)
While I myself have only modified smaller codebases, modified forks of Firefox, Chromium, and GIMP (among many others) do in fact exist. Some of those forks have even gone on to become quite popular (although none yet as popular as their parent codebases).
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Re:EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales ... by userbinator on Sunday July 11, 2021 @04:39PM (#27804385)
Meanwhile, people have been patching and modding Windows despite the lack of source code.
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