Well, and this whole thing about free software. So let's talk about that for a second. Again, for the people listening for the very first time or people thinking about getting into Linux as opposed to whatever they've used in the past, whether that's OS X or whether that's Windows or Sun Solaris or wherever they're coming from. So unlike XPlane, which is developed by a company for use on a specific platform, and the developers of that software are employed by that company and by contract. They are not allowed to go to other companies and share that information because it's very proprietary and they want to make a profit on it. And they do make a profit on it over and over and over again. Under Linux, the developers of the Linux operating system itself oftentimes are also involved in their favorite applications or the applications they want to contribute to. And they contribute their time for free and vice versa. The application developers are contributing to the development of drivers (25/42)
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