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posted by mceric, Germany, 05.07.2021, 12:40
(edited by mceric on 05.07.2021, 12:53)

> Sure. I have a competing product.
>
> Far less features.
>
> Far less copyrighted code.
>
> People will probably need to make that
> tradeoff for eternity. Not just with
> freeware, but with commercial software
> too. I'm not attempting to replace
> commercial software. I'm trying to give
> them unencumbered code to lower their
> costs.
Being very explicit about how "evil" open source is alone does not give you a market. In particular when you have only a tiny subset of the features of Windows and refuse to add even standard things such as segments, threads or networking. Not everything is as "insidious" as GPL. There also is LGPL and MIT, BSD, CC and other licenses are actually quite relaxed. Even Windows includes many open source components. The cost for Microsoft is having to provide a website which mentions them all and mirrors their source code. Very affordable.

Most users will not care either way. They use pre-installed Windows, do not read the license, are not aware of the "Microsoft tax" when buying a computer with Windows. It just is already there. Others use Linux, even states and companies do. Russia is even creating their own Linux distro, so they neither have to trust nor pay Microsoft. This can include closed source components, so they do not have to reveal every detail either. They only have to reveal their patches to existing open source parts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astra_Linux

If you look at Raspberry Pi style computers or simply at the better Arduino variants, you already get threads, multiple CPU cores and networking. On Raspberry Pi style single board computers (SBC), people simply use a full Linux.

Sometimes the 3d and video acceleration drivers are closed source, like for other desktop and laptop PC. For some SBC, Android (derived from Linux) or lightweight Windows variants are available.

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