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Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by inglor_cz on Monday January 17, 2022 @02:09PM (#29970454)
... for a higher price.

And we may have a long discussion about "how to engineer software so that it doesn't need as much support". Theoretically, it can be done; practically, we have all been astonished by Ways of the Common User that no one anticipated, plus you always hit the problem with diversity of hardware.

Apple seems to be pretty user friendly, but Apple products are expensive to boot and Apple does not support their OS on non-Apple hardware.

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Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Monday January 17, 2022 @02:44PM (#29970886)
Pretty much no one today builds software with the intention that it doesn't need support. In fact, the entire hybrid-FOSS ecosystem is perversely incentivised towards exactly the opposite. It won't be as hard as people think it will be when we stop cramming features and GUI changes in to appease some manufactured need to sell the new version.
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