Lets say you buy a license for a piece of software that has an expiration date and every year you need to renew the license Then the company that makes the software goes out of business or you forget to renew the license
What are you stuck with now, bits that do nothing.
This happened recently at my work The compilers, f77, f90, cc all had the licenses run out People using those programs very quickly got extremely unproductive (and annoyed too) While other people using GNU free alternatives did not experience this problem
I personally like not having to worry about restrictions being placed on me by other people
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I have written many papers in LaTex
and I find it much easier to work with
and more portable than say Word or WordPerfect
Now for something that needs to be done quickly
with the least amount of effort
(i.e Learning a new language)
you might use Word or equivalent
But for a large job like a few hundred word thesis
or a book, I would prefer to use LateX
Because it makes my job of typesetting much easier
Lets say you buy a license for a piece of software
that has an expiration date
and every year you need to renew the license
Then the company that makes the software
goes out of business or you forget to renew the license
What are you stuck with now, bits that do nothing.
This happened recently at my work
The compilers, f77, f90, cc all had the licenses run out
People using those programs very quickly got extremely unproductive (and annoyed too)
While other people using GNU free alternatives did not experience this problem
I personally like not having to worry about
restrictions being placed on me by other people