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Post-it‘s with passwords aren’t the worst in security. Physical access to the note is required to get the password. One post-it under each keyboard with a different password is better than the same password shared widely.

GitLab is a good example of excellent software. It has a proper business model and has built a great community.

Most Linux desktop applications sadly have no good business model. If you have a business model you can pay developers, designers, support, writers, etc.

Free web applications and free FLOSS have lead to people not valuing software you are right. If there is much good software and services available for free, why should I pay?

As a developer I have bought many pieces of software to make my work easier: Git Tower, Kaleidoscope, PaintCode, Dash, Reveal, Charles, Acorn, Paw, are what come to mind right now. I perceive all of these tools' value to be high.

It's not just developers and big influencer. Calling them power users is a better term. These are the people other people ask for advice.

Using only Darwin instead of Linux or FreeBSD was never really attractive. Contributing upstream is difficult to impossible, since Apple was never set up to take your contributions. The different Darwin distributions never really developed a direction or a unique feature set.

The only feature that sets Darwin apart from FreeBSD is launchd instead of init. The rest is mostly downsides like a weird file system. You can get dtrace on many other OSs today too.

Prices in the US and Canada are ridiculous if you've been to Europe.

Germany is one of the worst telecom markets in Europe, but you can get 2 GB of data, unlimited calls, unlimited texts for 12.99 € without contract.

In France you pay 19.99 € without contract for unlimited calls, unlimited SMS and MMS, and 50 GB.

The main difference is how the market is regulated. Better regulation leads to lower prices for consumer.

As the bible says http://www.bibleserver.com/text/ESV/Deuteronomy23%2C25

If you go into your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, as many as you wish, but you shall not put any in your bag. 25 If you go into your neighbor’s standing grain, you may pluck the ears with your hand, but you shall not put a sickle to your neighbor’s standing grain.

Stealing food is okay sometimes. There's even a word in German for it Mundraub.

Vivaldi Browser 1.0 10 years ago

I loved Opera back in the 3.x to 7.x days. Vivaldi's UI and features reminds me of it.

After using it for an hour for my regular browsing, I noticed it uses a lot of CPU for some websites. I saw over 100% for pages where Safari chugs along with 25%. That's enough to get the fans spinning.

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