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Originally Posted by Ghitulescu
So, if I understand it correctly, you're asking some people to provide you a free tool for you not to pay those expensive tools? I mean to work for free for you?
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No, not for me only. For the world at large. That is the point of open-source software. If the developers thought the same way you're thinking now, there wouldn't have been open-source software in the first place. If monetary compensation is the only thing people want, there would have been no Linux, no GCC, no VLC, no MPC-HC. I just politely gave my suggestion on one of these softwares, and defended (again politely), on why it would not be a bad idea, but if you (or anyone else) thinks this way, then fine. I will shut up.
May be I am an idiot to think that open-source software would be a collaborative community movement after all.