Sorry I just don’t buy into this premise that software should be free and we developers owe you the source code as well. Why don’t we just make everything free.
Some people get it in their heads that they're somehow entitled to watch "Game of Thrones." If the distributors only make it available on one platform, one that you don't want to use, that's their purview.
Nobody has the right to watch "Game of Thrones," and not being able to find it on a platform you prefer to use is not a valid excuse to steal it.
you buy a book and you can’t re-author it
you buy a record and you can’t re-record it
you cannot pirate TV broadcasts
you cannot steal the fruits of the labors of authors, songwriters, tv writers.
what makes you entitled to steal the fruits of the labors of programmers?
For those who don't know every acronym out there. I had to look it up.
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
But there is still no Tier 1 vendor selling desktop Linux. Dell has on occasion released a desktop Linux machine. And HP and Dell sell Linux servers, with many hoops to jump through to find them. If you want Linux pre-installed from a vendor who does it right you go to one of the excellent independent Linux vendors such as System76, ZaReason, Emperor Linux, Penguin Computing, or Pogo Linux. There are no Linux computers at Walmart, Best Buy, or Fry’s. Even Amazon, the largest store on Earth, has only few oddball Linux PCs.
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Small independent Linux shops make it dead easy to buy a Linux computer. You go to their sites, and lo! There they are. You can customize them online and make your purchase without ever talking to a human. If you need help or a custom configuration they will take care of you. Oddly, the titans of tech are unable to do this without making it a great big hairy deal. (I learned to make custom Debian spins way back in the last millennium. Surely a bigtime tech company with battalions of staff and control of the hardware can do the same.) In a genuinely competitive marketplace we could go to any major retailer and order up whatever computers we want with whatever operating system we want. We could choose from Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, and maybe some others that have fallen by the wayside such as Amiga, OpenSolaris, and OS/2, and perhaps some others that would have been invented in a lively open marketplace. That we can’t means the market is still under the thumbs of the wrong people.