Ed Greshko wrote:
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
The distinction between commercial and FOSS is a false one. You mean proprietary or non-free software. There is a lot of commercial FOSS applications and products available today.
I didn't mean to imply that... But, it is also unfair to automatically label free (as in no cost) proprietary software as "bad".
That depends on perspective. Fedora's perspective is to support Free and open source software exclusively. That doesn't require being judgmental about non-free software.
Neither offers guarantees but Free software offers more choice and flexibility if a vendor decides to cut off support for a product.
And a good vendor won't do that.
Many vendors do drop support quickly (which makes sense since the focus is on volume) and some go out of business. Free software projects can route around such damage.
Rahul