If every distro of Linux/BSD suddenly became the same price as

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>>62284316
Depends on the distro, what they were offering and what kind of support/security they offered but generally yes, anything is better than windows 10 at this point

>>62284316
Would it still be free as in freedom or at least open source?

If yes, then your question is nonsensical, because anyone could just release the source.

If no, your question is still nonsensical, because someone will fork the previous free version and a free as in freedom and free beer Linux fork will live on.

If "but how about we go back in time and make it so that any modern version of Linux was never free at all" then no, because I only use Linux because it is open source / free as in freedom.

Only if I couldn't pirate windows 10 either

>>62284316
For servers - yes.

Programming at least in the languages I use suck on windows, I find the tooling far superior on linux

fuckno
that sounds absolutely horrendous

>>62284363
In this hypothetical there are no old versions to fork, they've just all been non-free from the beginning.

>>62284365
can't pirate anything

>>62284344
All of them, so any distro that exists now, they all become pay to use, non-free like windows.

The question is basically "Is your favourite distro worth windows pricing?"

>>62284436
>In this hypothetical there are no old versions to fork, they've just all been non-free from the beginning.
Then none of them would have gained any popularity, and we'd still be using Solaris / SunOS and watch Sun and Novell fight like crazy.

Technically it still has to be open source, so Gentoo stage 1 here I come