What are the benefits of using proprietary software?

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Nothing proprietary exists for which a free alternative can not be produced.

getting a fucking job

Not having to deal with open-source software

I always try to use free and open-source software and usually that type of software is superior in many ways such as efficiency, lightweight, customizability, being able to get forked, etc. On the other side with some types of software you shouldn't be putting your faith in the hands of a bunch of unpaid programmers. Some packages that are used in nearly all Linux distros look like they were made by a bunch of NEETs.

>efficiency, lightweight
Mind you, FOSS is far away from being efficient and lightweight

Getting job done

theyll make a free alternative but not provide documentation or the documentation is incomplete

it *can* be just like I *can* do something with my life
its better. it has better features, better performance, less bugs. see: nvidia vs nouveau

It's always a question on what kind of software you're looking at. Administration is basically a whole industry working together as even when everything is layed out completly(open source), most people are too dumb to use it anyway. Payment isn't solved through creation but by support.
On the other hand we have stuff like Krita/Gimp/Openshot hobbyist stuff. It's a whole category where no programmer ever will get something out of it to make their job safer/easier, there's no viable payment model available and so it'll always be the side project of enthusiastis. In those cases proprietary will always have the upper hand until we reach a point where there's nothing to add anymore and FOSS may just catch on as time flys.

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Proprietary is often more polished

it's produced by people and companies who have an economic interest in making it good enough to beat the competition, which includes both foss and other proprietary software
foss does not have this problem

You know that that's an awful comparison. Nouveau performs as it does because Nvidia won't provide binary blobs. If you look into AMD, you'll see that the opensource drivers perform better than the proprietary one.

That's only true for the GUI side. When it comes to performance and code structure open source will always be better because anyone can clear out bugs and improve the code.

It just werk unironically

You don't have to guess if your software is spying on you. (it is)

It just werks

It's more likely to work well with other proprietary software from the same company

People don't look at you funny and say, "Is that a LOONIX?"

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it literally never happens you delusional open sores fag

You get software written by professionals, not hobbyists.
Let's face it, "free" software is developed by amateurs, not professionals.
"Free" software developers are bound to be subpar.
It's common sense really. The essence of "free" software is software made by hobbyists with no payment.
Those developers are bound to be amateurs, because when you're really good at something you do it professionally, not as a hobby, getting paid for it instead of doing it for free or as a volunteer, and when you make something really valuable you keep the rights to it, you don't just give them away, and you charge for it.
This is just life. The old maxim "you get what you pay for" has never been truer, no matter what zealots try to say.
There is no free lunch, it's basic economics!

Free software means freedom, not price. It can be paid for. If you got it for free then that's on you.

using? none
making? lots

There's a chance the UX isn't shit.

What you're saying isn't even remotely true. In a shock to no-one, you are quite frankly talking out of your ass. A lot of companies develop FOSS software further for their own purposes, and I've personally met one of the guys who develops Geoserver. He lives in Italy but flies around Europe on consultation gigs and organizes training courses on the software. That day he made $24,000 from the presentation and workshop he organized.

What freedom?
Proprietary software is freeer than "free" software.
Software is just a tool. Freedom isn't a function of what you can do to the tools you have, but rather of what you can do WITH the tools you have. Hence, Linux is less free than Windows, because Windows can accomplish more than Linux can.

Proprietary software is not more free by that definition, because you can only accomplish what the author approves of. Modification of the software for other purposes is not allowed.

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