alt text: Someone looking disinterested at their fingernails. "Me pretending that i dont care about convenience so i can use free software"
this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2024
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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.
50% of the time it works mostly some of the time.