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(03-09-2017, 04:24 PM)Galen Wrote:

(03-09-2017, 10:27 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: If you do not trust proprietary software, then you do not trust free enterprise.

You do realize that there are companies that actually make money from free software.  Red Hat comes to mind as the most prominent company.  Come to think of it there is a sizeable number of people who get paid for writing and maintaining free software.  So even by your rather simplistic view of free market economics free software is not a statement against free enterprise.  In the face of Microsoft being generally incompetent when it comes to security and actively colluding with the NSA.  Then there is the huge amount of data that Windows 10 collects and the user can not turn it off.  I am pretty sure Apple isn't much better.

I am simply exercising my right to choose not to use certain products.

A group of programmers getting together to write software to serve their needs along with the needs of other users is as much a part of the free market as any company is.  While it is perfectly possible to make money from free software it is not necessary condition for the participants of this interaction to benefit from it.

Uh, which nation has a free market?  It's not the US.  The US is:
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