If you're the type who'd buy a product from microsoft or Apple, you're the type to try and leech money off of. You don't care about Free there, you shouldn't care about Free in your choice of userland software that much either. Buy what you have to to get the job done.
On the other side of the fence, our currency is bug reports, feature requests, and community support, all completely on the basis of common sense and nearly unbridled economy of scale. I report every bug I see, and I file every good idea I get on brainstorm. Because the bugs and features I interact with are specific to /me/ often times (I do weird things; I am the corner case.) , my level of interaction with the software today may help determine how well suited to my needs it is tomorrow.
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If you're the type who'd buy a product from microsoft or Apple, you're the type to try and leech money off of. You don't care about Free there, you shouldn't care about Free in your choice of userland software that much either.
Buy what you have to to get the job done.
On the other side of the fence, our currency is bug reports, feature requests, and community support, all completely on the basis of common sense and nearly unbridled economy of scale. I report every bug I see, and I file every good idea I get on brainstorm. Because the bugs and features I interact with are specific to /me/ often times (I do weird things; I am the corner case.) , my level of interaction with the software today may help determine how well suited to my needs it is tomorrow.