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		WalterBright on March 3, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Look at the Slow, Silent Death of America’s Midd... And yet if you used Linux, the operating system would be free. Linux is very heavily used in industry. I read now and then about how paid software relies heavily on the free stuff, and how those vendors should donate to the people writing the free stuff.

alar44 on March 8, 2022 [–]

There's no way we'd be able to use Linux. We might be able to make it work, but we'd be then kissing vendor support goodbye. That's suicide.

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