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Originally Posted by Alex Atkin UK View Post
Quite simply, Open Source does not need to make as many people happy because you are not doing it to make money. Whenever there is a financial incentive you are naturally trying to appeal to as wide an audience as possible.
That's why Windows is such a smash success--not because of the legal strong-arming, exclusivity agreements and other unethical shenanigans that could have provided it with the unfair advantage it needed to be forced down our throats even when something else was cheaper, better supported and operated more reliably and faster. No, no.. clearly it was ALWAYS the better product despite not being the better product.

Originally Posted by Alex Atkin UK View Post
However much we all like to think we hate capitalism, we all do things for our own benefit even if its just to "make us feel good". Money makes the world go round, without it we would still be using the abacus.
I hate monopolistic capitalism, but I love the free market! Isn't that ironic?
 

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