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Remember when you could buy a program or outright, like a civilized person? Now, they want you to subscribe to everything yearly or monthly like it's some digital cheese of the month club. "Oh, you want to use the Xyz app today? That'll be $19.99, please." It makes you want to return to typewriters and carrier pigeons. But thanks to open source, we now have some alternatives available. If possible, please use and support these open-source applications. 🥰 #opensource #linux #unix #bsd
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