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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by BautAufWasEuchAufbaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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alt text: Someone looking disinterested at their fingernails. "Me pretending that i dont care about convenience so i can use free software"

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[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 43 points 8 months ago

Free software: Usually works right away

Proprietary software: Usually licensed. Need to purchase a license. Payment keeps failing. You finally get activation key. Software fails to activate. You contact support. They insist it works. After a few days it finally works. A few years later the software gets discontinued. Software cannot contact activation server as it doesn't exist anymore. Software is now absolutely unusable.