I'm going to ignore the points about Truth Social for a bit since I do
not wish to get into a political spat (and have no love for different
parties in general).
I understand the limits of free software. One problem I identify is
that some people use free software not because they value freedom,
but
simply because it is economical to do so.
Why is this a 'problem?'
People who exploit the "cheapness" do nothing to promote free
software and its
philosophy; they do not say: "This product is possible thanks to the
free software packages X, Y, Z and many more. We are grateful to
all
the develpers who worked on them while making this available to the
public on gracious terms."
I'm sorry, but this is quite a weird take to me. I hope you're able to
see it from my POV: Not everyone can afford expensive software. People
aren't 'exploiting' free software (or -f-OSS in general) just because
they use something that's free. Also I'm not sure if we should confuse
free software with free *and* open source software.
Anecdotally, when I buy 'expensive' software (Such as Apple <Insert
software> or in a recent case for me, Scrivener, or what have you -
sometimes you don't have that much of a choice), does that mean I
automatically go "This great expensive product is possible thanks to x,
y or z?" I don't. I don't even know who wrote that software. When I see
and like a free software (or in most cases, a FOSS), I usually check
out the dev's profile to see if they've written anything else, but
that's pretty much it - aside from donations for software that I use on
an everyday basis and so on. But as is, even if I (or other developers
of such things) weren't getting donations, someone using your own
software instead of the x alternative is quite gratifying. *If* I like
a piece of software greatly, I would obviously praise whoever wrote it
and recommend it to other like minded people, but that goes for both
free and proprietary software. But that doesn't mean I am going to do
that for every free software, nor does it mean I do it regularly -
everyday people often have other priorities.
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