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Genuinely. Consciously basing the ENTIRE so-called "Economy" on something that absolutely falls apart if someone goes "mine's better and free"...certainly a choice
then again, Linux has been battling uphill for a while.
Yeah, the big difference in uptake is really integration. People can see inidivudal working programs and see the value, but the moment it interacts with another (which they also use) it exponentially increases in perceived value. The fact that these slop toasters are integrated with Chrome or Outlook is what makes them sellable. So the free variants are going to have to find some way to beat that, to be even more integrateable and universal.... but I can't imagine the answer to that problem.