Comment Comment by feikname > The 3% of Linux desktop users would disagree.We don't know how much of that 3% is there for the FOSS aspect.I suspect most are because of the free aspect and being better than Windows for their use case, the open source is just a bonus.> They are collectively willing to pay millions of dollars every year in perpetuity for a productPeople love free stuff and will prefer it if its good enough, that's why Discord and Google Docs are so popular.Funding open source would be cool though. Specially if we started hiring UX people parent feikname 4 years ago
We don't know how much of that 3% is there for the FOSS aspect.
I suspect most are because of the free aspect and being better than Windows for their use case, the open source is just a bonus.
> They are collectively willing to pay millions of dollars every year in perpetuity for a product
People love free stuff and will prefer it if its good enough, that's why Discord and Google Docs are so popular.
Funding open source would be cool though. Specially if we started hiring UX people