As someone else in the thread noted, other versions of software can and often do get you 98% of the way there, in terms of features/interoperability, but it turns out that remaining 2% is often mission critical, and that's where Adobe/Microsoft, etc get you if you are a working professional.

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Additionally, those numbers are only accessible if you want to administer a Linux system and be a hacker (the old meaning). Not everyone wants to deal with the friction of Gimp, OpenOffice, etc. So the lower-friction commercial solutions reign.

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It’s funny because the same people who’ll tell you “academic language” and “wokeness” is out of touch with regular people’s concerns while also being quite sure 30K isn’t a big deal for most people’s lives.

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Except he didn't fund it, I did, paying a much higher tax rate than the white supremacist. Those thrusters are SpaceX tech for which we—not him—have paid ~$31 billion. I paid for those cold gas thrusters and the software running them, and what I get in exchange is a short video and white supremacy.

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On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we featured a conversation with one of the world’s most prominent champions for Indigenous rights, Leonard Peltier. “I'm still talking, and I'm going to talk ‘til I die. I am not going to give up because we are not free yet,” he says.

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