Most people who think FOSS is bad are regularly turning a blind eye to the bullshit that proprietary software puts them through with various enshittification kind of practices. And that’s not new. It’s been the case for as long as FOSS alternatives to proprietary software have existed.
I swore off of Windows when a legitimate copy of XP balked about activating for no good reason. And XP was… like the least bad version of Windows.
Even if you do ignore the bad parts, a preference for the proprietary solution over the FOSS one is often (usually?) more a matter of your preferences or prior familiarity than anything objective about the software in question.
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Most people who think FOSS is bad are regularly turning a blind eye to the bullshit that proprietary software puts them through with various enshittification kind of practices. And that’s not new. It’s been the case for as long as FOSS alternatives to proprietary software have existed.
I swore off of Windows when a legitimate copy of XP balked about activating for no good reason. And XP was… like the least bad version of Windows.
Even if you do ignore the bad parts, a preference for the proprietary solution over the FOSS one is often (usually?) more a matter of your preferences or prior familiarity than anything objective about the software in question.