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feikname | 4 years ago
We don't know how much of that 3% is there for the FOSS aspect.
I suspect most are because of the free aspect and being better than Windows for their use case, the open source is just a bonus.
> They are collectively willing to pay millions of dollars every year in perpetuity for a product
People love free stuff and will prefer it if its good enough, that's why Discord and Google Docs are so popular.
Funding open source would be cool though. Specially if we started hiring UX people
rglullis|4 years ago
> Funding open source would be cool though. Specially if we started hiring UX people
If I hadn't promised my wife that I would take a real break during the holidays, I'd be working on the landing page to gauge interest on this idea that I have on to create a (non-crypto) "DAO" for curating/funding/promoting Open Source development. Can I ping you once I have something more concrete to show?
piaste|4 years ago
I switched to Linux this year, after three decades as a happy Windows power user since 3.1, because I was finally sick of having to fight the OS to stop it from showing me ads, tracking my activity, and trying to push unwanted products and updates on me.
This may or may not count as "I switched for the FOSS". Of course its FOSS nature is ultimately the reason why Linux does not treat me as a data cow.
But if Linux were a fully closed-source, commercial OS, but still showed the same basic respect to me that older Windows version did, I would still be a happy user. Said respect need be as little as (1) don't put stuff on my machine without my permission, (2) let me do whatever the fuck I want on my machine.
Denvercoder9|4 years ago
No, I use Linux because I need a *nix system, Linux provides a better one out-of-the-box, and I very much dislike Apple's UI/UX.