You delved a bit too deep into the socioeconomic aspect of my comment. I have no problem with the existence of intellectual property and support free-market capitalism. So, moving beyond that, I'm clearly not the only one impacted negatively by such industry shifts. The long-term cost is certainly not lower for everyone. Although I haven't been watching the GNU industry as long as you have, there have been great innovations in the 9 years that I have been involved. However, I never said that they match the capabilities of their commercial counterparts. The point I was making is that creative professionals can certainly make efficient use of the open-source selections and, moving forward, absolutely help enhance them by contributing their own creativity and innovation. If this happened, open-source software would be much more feasible for freelancers and many small firms.
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