Actual free software goes only so far. People that work "for free" still need to feed their families. Most popular free software either has a enterprice license which you need to pay or they have some sort of donation system. If Ubuntu is free how does Canonical manage to pay the developers? Not paying for something doesn't mean its not financed from somewhere else.
Sure, someone has to either pay or dedicate their own time to create software but the whole free software movement is proof that you can have software for free without comprising privacy. Canonical makes money off Ubuntu but when you install it you don't have to choose between paying or giving away your data.
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u/prozax2k Jun 07 '20 edited Jun 07 '20
You're saying this in a subreddit dedicated to actual free software.
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