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Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever
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What about the boat loads of marketing - ads - aimed at making you believe those proprietary programs are the best? Clearly you fell for it.
I've used my share of free software. Some of it worked well, but it always felt clunky, and just never as straightforward to use as a paid product.
But sure, I couldn't possibly have reached that conclusion on my own, it's obviously the marketing.
Sounds like you're cherry picking both; I've seen plenty of garbage that costs money as well.
Sure, but if you look at the top quality softwares, the majority of them are paid.
Because money is a big encouragement to make them as flawless as possible. Something FOSS just doesn't have.