Speaking of paying for software, does anyone have an email / calendar client they would recommend for Ubuntu besides Thunderbird, Evolution, or 'Calendar' ?
Ask HN: What software do you actually pay for?
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#42Intellij
Spotify
Google One
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#43Desktop one off purchases: Clients for MySQL and SQLite (prettier and easier to use than free alternatives). Snagit for screenshots Desktop subscription based: Devexpress Winforms and ASP.net component suite (best Windows component suite on the market - leaves free alternatives in the dust). Add in Express components for building office add-ins (could not build my core product without it) Both of these combined cost…
>Devexpress Winforms and ASP.net component suite (best Windows component suite on the market - leaves free alternatives in the dust)
Question (for the Mac people here): what's the Mac equivalent of that?
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#44I don't need to pay. If FOSS doesn't exist for what I need, I may try to write it by myself.
What was the latest product that you wrote for yourself?
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#45It's been more than a decade since I paid for any software, Mathlab for Linux. It was a requirement for a class I was taking - Ironically, I never did have to use it. Octave proved more than adequate. Before that... well... I think the only other software I ever paid for was a shareware game (Commander Keen) when I was a kid in the early 90's. Generally I'm always surprised when I hear a reference to commercial softw…
Commercial software succeeds when the product sells itself as the best possible version. Looking at macOS, where you're forced to buy a legitimate copy to engage with all the features, you might think "why not just use a free OS" but that sells commercial software short of all the other things it offers other than just "this is software you've seen before".
I do believe it's closed-minded to think all alternatives to commercial software are exactly the same as the commercial version and therefore there's no reason to buy commercial. Paid software still has a reason to exist and many customers to bat.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
You find paying for software to be unusual? How can that be?
Having not run DOS/Windows since 1995 I haven't needed to. I can't imagine dealing with an OS without the kind of enormous and comprehensive software repository of Debian or pretty much any distro.
Are these really the best possible version of the software? You can be an engineer and get away with using a hacked-together clone of some popular software program, but is the money really going to set you back farther than a good copy will set you forward?