@hakui @iwillbite
>that just shows how unviable you think free software is economically that you feel you need protectionism for it lmao
Why does the food industry needs protectionism then ? Doesn't it show how economically nonviable it is ?

>as there are a lot of free software that are successful and being used widely
Usage doesn't equate success, and that applies to proprietary software. Look at MS, the only reason why it's everywhere it's because it's the defacto OS sold on IBM clones, Chrome ? because it installed itself like any malware at the time, via freewares etc...

>there are just not enough autists that know what the users need
True, so does the marketers who thinks that Jack welsh was a genius.
So do the users themselves, as they don't even know how to choose a tech. Tech too when you think about it because they're trained to satisfy the market demand thanks to their sponsored courses... oh wait.... doesn't that mean that the market demand isn't organic ? :pikasurprise:

>the unfree licenses are them making sure they'll get a return on investment
That's not incorrect as that's the initial goal but it turned out to be a fallacy to think so as otherwise "piracy" would not exist. Today they also allows a certain percentage of pseudo "freeware" otherwise they'd make people less dependent on their tool since, they also get a return on invest on the brain time availability that users give to their product.

>but thinking both options are equal
I'm not saying they are.

>and that people aren't using the proprietary one because of some feature that the free one lacks is silly and dogmatic
There's a need to be pragmatic short term and long term, short term you can compromise depending on your context like for example if you need to use it for work, but why would you finance proprietary software for personal small fun project ? It's not critical to your survival.
Then you also have to invest long term. And as everything unfold progressively you can't invest long term with proprietary software otherwise you end up going back to the minitel.

>donations don't count
Bullshit. The goal of even donations is to finance manpower so that they can continuously maintain it.