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That may be true, sir, but it surely didn't cost the developers of the Linux distros "about a dime" to develop it. Nor did your bandwidth cost you "about a dime" when you downloaded it. Nor did it cost the developers "about a dime" to pay for hosting for their websites, developing their distros, paying the phone bill, pay for the electricity they used to run their computers, pay their programmers, or buy lunch, or any other expenses they forked out to give you that so-called "free" distro.
Stupid Generation Z American kids with no clue of anything useful to do with their time. Make a...
The same engine, yes. Totally different games. Not only does DOD:S use HDR in most (all?) maps, which CSS...
Your so-called "free distro" cost MUCH more than "about a dime" somewhere along the line. Hell, man, the ones who hosted the download page spent more money than "about a dime" just to keep the website up.
Got the idea yet? Or are you just too dense to understand the meanings of "cost" and "free"...
Stupid man! NO ONE (apart from some Microsoft employees, and even they or the company pays for it somewhere along the line) can download a "free" version of XP, just as no one can download a "free" version of OS X. To even do it, one must pay AT LEAST $500 to subscribe to MSDN (or in the case of OS X, the Apple Developer Connection) at the OS level (at least if one wants to have a legitimate license to either of them).
Donald McDaniel Cost estimates are different from practical cost. What, exactly, did it cost to develop GTK? Much less than a dime, actually. Bandwidth is...
I guess one could rip Microsoft or Apple off, and download a so-called "free" pirated version. But you WILL "pay" for it in a defiled conscience (if you even HAVE a conscience by now), and possibly in time spent behind bars if you ever get arrested for your theft, as well as Federal and State fines. And the rest of us will pay for YOUR theft of a "free" OS in higher OS and OS development costs (at the very least).
Otherwise, one must PURCHASE it, JUST as one must PURCHASE any other commercially-distributed OS.
Haven't you ever heard of the "Butterfly Effect"? Do a little research on it, my friend, and apply it in the realm of finances. You will stop thinking in terms of "free software or downloads" very quickly. Hopefully, it will sober you up a little.
Someone, somewhere along the line, ALWAYS pays. Get used to it.
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