They STILL use proprietary software

>they STILL use proprietary software

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Division of labor.

how is that related to my thread get out

The point of free as in freedom is to allow you to modify your software. It's more efficient for the original programmer to do this than to have everybody else learn the language it was written in, learn the whole program, learn what they need to do to modify it, and recompile. There is more incentive to work, release work, and release good work if there is a financial reward.

free as in freedom, not free as in price

It's too hard to solder wires on the bios chip on the X200s
sorry stallman

Free as in freedom means free as in price.

But it does not mean uncompensated work. A vast majority of the top 200 contributors to the Linux kernel are professional (aka "paid") developers.

Ah, so a fraction of the number that Microsoft made into multimillionaires.

non gratis!!!