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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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alt text: Someone looking disinterested at their fingernails. "Me pretending that i dont care about convenience so i can use free software"

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Free software: Usually works right away

Proprietary software: Usually licensed. Need to purchase a license. Payment keeps failing. You finally get activation key. Software fails to activate. You contact support. They insist it works. After a few days it finally works. A few years later the software gets discontinued. Software cannot contact activation server as it doesn't exist anymore. Software is now absolutely unusable.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago

50% of the time it works mostly some of the time.