The High Price of Free Software

Description

A two-part meme comparing an 'unvaccinated' child to someone making a basic tech mistake. The top text reads, 'Anti-vax mom: My kid is fine without vaccines'. Below this, under the heading 'The kid:', is a screenshot of the Amazon India (amazon.in) mobile website. The search bar clearly shows the query 'ubuntu'. The search results below feature two listings for Ubuntu Linux on DVD: a sponsored ad for 'Ubuntu 18.10.1 GNOME 3 OS 64 Bit Live Bootable Installation DVD' for ₹299, and another for 'Ubuntu 19.04 Desktop - Install/Live DVD (64-bit)' for ₹249. The humor is derived from the fact that Ubuntu is a well-known, free, and open-source operating system that can be downloaded from its official website at no cost. The meme equates the lack of 'vaccination' (knowledge) with the 'illness' of paying for something that is universally available for free in the tech community, a mistake only an uninformed person would make

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The only thing more expensive than buying an Ubuntu DVD is the technical support contract you'll need from the person who sold it to you

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

The only thing more expensive than buying an Ubuntu DVD is the technical support contract you'll need from the person who sold it to you
Anonymous

Refusing vaccines is like disabling unattended-upgrades for humans - give it a year and the kid’s on Amazon buying an EOL Ubuntu 18.10 DVD, ready to boot every 2018 CVE straight into production
Anonymous

The real virus here is paying ₹299 for Ubuntu when you could download it for free - though at least this DVD won't need apt-get update after 5 years on the shelf, unlike the poor soul who actually boots from it and discovers 10,000 pending security patches
Anonymous

When your dependency management strategy is 'buy EOL Ubuntu DVDs on Amazon,' you're not just running legacy systems - you're actively collecting them. Ubuntu 18.10 reached end-of-life in July 2019, making this the software equivalent of buying expired milk because it's on sale. Modern devs use USB drives or network installs, but apparently some still believe in the healing power of optical media and the charm of unsupported kernels
Anonymous

Mom bans vaccines; kid enforces herd immunity at the OS layer with Ubuntu - shame it’s an EOL build on DVD, a.k.a. patch management via courier
Anonymous

Natural immunity holds until apt upgrade triggers the inevitable live DVD ritual
Anonymous

Anti‑vax mom: “No injections.” The kid: orders an Ubuntu install DVD - because at home, the only injection allowed is dependency injection
Deleted Account 5y

Bruh, it's free actually
1. @TERASKULL 5y
  
  well, 250 IRD is like 1.5 RUB, so it's not even the cost of a cd disc.
  
  @dfgprg 5y
  
  250 INR is $3.4
  
  @TERASKULL 5y
  
  oops, got the wrong currency, my apologies
2. Deleted Account 5y
  
  r/whoosh
@Flam_Su 5y

Rubella is dangerous disease. Not fun at all.
@TERASKULL 5y

I used the indonesian rupee, instead of the indian
@BMelnyk01 5y

ух уж эти платные изания