Paladin of the Pegasos
Posts: 1724 from 2012/3/22
From: Stockholm, Sweden
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It's useless to compare to totally free systems like Linux.
Actually, it's not really free. The kernel is nowadays 75% coded by paid programmers at huge corporations who need a good kernel for their server and server service needs. Ubuntu makes their money out of server services, and a lot of popular distros are made out of that codebase, by paid developers. Sure, there are several community based non profit distros too but they still benefit from this paid work.
If Linux was, just like MorphOS, coded by free time programmers for nothing or peanuts it would be in a lot worse state today. It's because it found a market that corporations are prepared to invest millions in it despite the code being open source. Just because the end user can get it for free doesn't mean there is no profit motive nor developers with generous paychecks involved.
People should stop forgetting this. Especially those who nags about the price of MorphOS. Nothing is free. It's paid either in money or in less free time, or a combination of both.
[ Edited by Yasu 07.06.2016 - 13:15 ]
