Re: Workstation Aesthetics

On 6/6/2024 5:13 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Thu, 6 Jun 2024 11:16:24 -0400, DFS wrote:
 

I want EVERYTHING in FOSS to be NOT GuhNoo, so the vile Stallman can
have a huge conniption and feel claustrophobic and run around whining
that he's being subjugated by 'non-free' software.
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Unfortunately, many of the largest and best FOSS projects in the world
are GPL-licensed.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Software_using_the_GPL_license
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(not that everyone of those is the best)

 What I found remarkable, no sarcasm intended, is how few apps on that list
that I use.  Pan, gcc, and the Linux kernel. I installed slrn on the
Fedora box but don't use it. I think it also has Konqueror by default.
 Even for Python I use black or ruff instead of PyLint and they both are
MIT. Everything else is MIT, Apache, zero clause BSD, or something like
the Python license. Usually there iw working that they can be construed as
GPL if you really want to.

Here's what I use just about every day:
SQLite         public domain
SQLiteStudio   GPL
Notepad++      GPL
Thunderbird/BetterBird   Mozilla Public License
Python         Python Software Foundation License
Office 2003    MS EULA.
SumatraPDF     GPL and BSD
PyQt 5         GPL
Brave browser  MPL-2
7Zip           LGPL and BSD
Other than tweaking a perl script 25 years ago at work, I've never made a cent of income from open source.
I used to really prefer paying for good closed source, but the greed of the commercial vendors, often in the form of annual subscriptions, has become a big turnoff.  I rarely come across reasonable costs any more - MS Office is one of the few low-cost options (it's really cheap if you have some household members or friends to share it with).
Even a db tool that's $5 a month will cost you $300 over 5 years.
You wanna be shocked?  Check out the cost of Toad software for Oracle:
https://shop.quest.com/682/purl-toad-for-oracle-subscription?x-adcode=PD
It's so outrageously overpriced they have a 'Justify Toad' page:
https://www.quest.com/products/toad-for-oracle/justify-toad-for-oracle-purchase.aspx
Probably Oracle db is the only closed source app I would pay for these days (but only if I could make money with it).