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@humanetech @gabek yes, there's a cognitive phenomenon where, if people perceive something to be widely used, and they've paid for it, it must be good. If, on the other hand, it's 'free', any barriers the encounter are unsurmountable and evidence of its inferiority. I'm forever baffled by the crap quality of the propietary software most people use, thinking it's 'state of the art'... it's amazing how highly you can polish a turd.

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@lightweight @humanetech @gabek This is really true.
I was told by my own mother (an EE and software developer) that if open source was any good it wouldn't be free. Nothing free was any good.

That mentality is very deep-seated, and it really hurts indie games too, since we can't charge more than about $10 without being laughed at, but people also aren't interested in inexpensive games because "they can't be any good or they'd cost more"

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