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Siplus:

--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---Buying software is no different than buying anything else, in my opinion having a large number of proprietary wouldn't be bad. You wouldn't be choosing from one power and another because no company would be in a significant position of power.

I rest my case freedom of choice is the most important thing, and yes freesoftware gives lots of choice but it isn't only way. :D
--- End quote ---


With proprietary software, you get proprietary formats, and vendor lock-in.

Consider: Microsoft.

Your turn

Aloone_Jonez:

--- Quote from: Siplus ---With proprietary software, you get proprietary formats, and vendor lock-in.

--- End quote ---

Yes in the current situation with Microsoft this is true, but if all the companies had equal market share we wouldn't because they'd have to interoperate with each other, for example Abobe's Acrobat portable document format is a proprietary format yet it's open so all programs can use it.

Siplus:
good point with PDF

Kintaro:
Note: Most the other programs suck. I have about 4 different PDF readers on Fedora, before then I had 3. All of them had trouble with various ebooks. So I downloaded Acrobat, which actually fucking worked flawlessly.

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