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Because we are the minority. If people understood that, we would be living in an open source utopia already.
Not my problem that other people are too stupid to see how they're being fucked.
Folks like you are part of the problem but you're clearly way too far gone to realize it.
No, folks like you are the problem. Apathy is how we got here in the first place.
There's plenty of good open source software that is user friendly, like VLC. The problem is other open source software that isn't user-friendly and takes this whole "it's the user's fault" approach. Folks like you just jerk each other off about how smart open source users are and how dumb proprietary software users are and it's just so cringy.