I would not consider using paid software under ANY circumstances
Before I would agree to that, I would go all the way back to something like Debian Woody. So you know who I am, I am not employed, have never made more than $6000 a year back when I was a bike messenger. Your $30 a year proposal would be comparable to Microsoft Office 360: subscription software.If things ever do get to this point, I will simply stop following updates and mantain anything that needs changing for any new hardware I get myself. I cannot under any circumstances afford to pay someone to do anything for me that I can do myself-or do without.
I don't see the developers of Audacity and Kdenlive telling users they "really ought to donate money," and like I said earlier, I am quite happy with that class of software. Better but paid can never compete for me-no matter how much better, because what I have is good enough. Even Intel has been hit hard by this, as huge numbers of offices refuse to dump perfectly good Core2 Duo machines that they paid off long ago for newer machines. Even before Windows 8, "Good Enough," already existing machines had totally knocked down sales of new office desktops, as the user requirements for those had been met and satisfied. Trying to sell new computers there is like trying to sell sex to guys coming out of a swing party-and so is trying to sell paid software to many satisfied users of free software.
This is my position, coming from a very low income position. My machines are not used to make money, so their software cannot be allowed to cost money, nor can power-hogging high-end GPU's be used. I understand it may be different for someone getting big bucks to rescue the machines Hollywood makes their DRM'ed movies on or writing paid games.
Originally posted by Ferdinand
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I don't see the developers of Audacity and Kdenlive telling users they "really ought to donate money," and like I said earlier, I am quite happy with that class of software. Better but paid can never compete for me-no matter how much better, because what I have is good enough. Even Intel has been hit hard by this, as huge numbers of offices refuse to dump perfectly good Core2 Duo machines that they paid off long ago for newer machines. Even before Windows 8, "Good Enough," already existing machines had totally knocked down sales of new office desktops, as the user requirements for those had been met and satisfied. Trying to sell new computers there is like trying to sell sex to guys coming out of a swing party-and so is trying to sell paid software to many satisfied users of free software.
This is my position, coming from a very low income position. My machines are not used to make money, so their software cannot be allowed to cost money, nor can power-hogging high-end GPU's be used. I understand it may be different for someone getting big bucks to rescue the machines Hollywood makes their DRM'ed movies on or writing paid games.
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