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Ubuntu Pro subscription - should you pay to use Linux? (optimizedbyotto.com)

submitted 2 days ago by cm0002@no.lastname.nz to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] Maragato@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

If you want technical support, of course you do. Just because a code is open source does not mean it should be free. Developers need to eat too. Another issue is that there are distributions such as ZorinOS that charge money for the right to use a pro version, when in reality it is the same version that you can configure yourself and that ZorinOS belongs to a company, not a user community.