@mangeurdenuage @iwillbite >comparing being unable to compete with being murdered
that just shows how unviable you think free software is economically that you feel you need protectionism for it lmao

that mindset's not even true, as there are a lot of free software that are successful and being used widely

the thing is that for some genres of software there are just not enough autists that know what the users need /and/ are interested in developing for them in their free time, that corpos decide to step in and fund their own (the unfree licenses are them making sure they'll get a return on investment and not have people bypassing them and building their own copy from the freely available source)

don't like it? yes go ahead and use the free alternative, but thinking both options are equal and that people aren't using the proprietary one because of some feature that the free one lacks is silly and dogmatic

>yes but they can still trademark and sell it
name a free software that you bought instead of building from source. donations don't count