[pjmlp]

Why should I bother to pay you, if others do the work for free to build portfolio for job interviews?

[0x6c6f6c]

To get whichever offers the best experience? Seems like a pointless question, functionality is a large deciding factor.

When they're equivalent products there's really not much to pay for though. That should push the costly product to improve more or else lose sales.

[pjmlp]

Hence why most business rather get themselves busy with Mac, Windows and app stores in what concerns desktop and mobile software.

[coldpie]

Well, do you want the work done or not?

[pjmlp]

The point I was trying to make was why the culture of free-as-beer doesn't lead to successful commercial desktop software on GNU/Linux.

[coldpie]

The point I'm trying to make is no one wants commercial desktop software on Linux. We want software we can fix and improve without requiring anyone's permission.

[pjmlp]

Which is precisely the point that drove me back to Windows, Mac and mobile platforms.

No point trying to play D. Quixote attempting business on the desktop with such mentality.