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Linux isn't free because it uses your electricity
That doesn't make it free. Somebody else is paying.
Oh, like online piracy. Got it! 🤣
Nope. If the product is finished and you make a copy, nobody else is paying.
If you go to the store (90s style) and steal a copy, that's a whole different thing.
Go to rental place in the 90's/2000's
Rent things
Copy things
Return original - No harm | Return copy - ???
Netflix DVD service is missed.
I love piracy.
I think patents are stupid and if you invent something good you should be able to sell it at whatever price you feel like, and if I copy what you did and sell it cheaper, that's on you. Try to make it better and cheaper next time. Or find your premium market, or find your 'the original creator' market, or receive donations, or etc...
But make it illegal to copy? That's just a pussy move.
Those sneaky bastards.
True, Linux isn't free because it uses electricity. It's free because it's licensed under the GNU General Public License which is designed to defend the freedom of its users.
What? You don't say.
Technically.... it's the hardware on your PC using all the electricity.
Yeah but it's the software that told it to do it.
Not initially, it's an on off switch... technically.
At some point it was a twinkle in Charles Babbage's eyes 👀:-D.
Except you can simply debloat and disable everything with a single script. Linuxbros are the biggest misinformation spreaders around windows.
Congrats.