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Quote of the day by Gabe Newell: "Piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue" — Sony just proved why digital storefronts are broken (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Unless you open source which can be iffy on quality if not consistently maintained. FreeCAD proves that.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, didn’t want to get too deep in the weeds about it, but FreeCAD is definitely an example. I feel like I’m using a perpetually unfinished decade-old program. While it certainly qualifies as one of those older free packages it never really took off.