You mean, like Intel GPU drivers with just the libre free-as-in-freedom kernel and MESA? Blender? Krita? Cinelerra-CV?
Darktable? ImageMagick? FFMPEG? KVM/Qemu? Most programming languages and frameworks? Clang/LLVM?
WTF are you talking about?
If any, science today it's made thanks to FLOSS software, propietary software it's the exception.
And the trend it looking worse for propietary environments.
Money will come from support and integration, not for the software.
A complex, scientific related reproducible ad-hoc environment for Guix may cost a little more on a single PC than a a propietary OS license and setting up the rest for yourself, but you will be able to replicate that setup everywhere and forever and on a guaranteed basis that once your paper/experiment it's replicated, yo get the same environment no matter where and how.
That's the difference.
Krita? You're just naming random open source Linux programs that hardly anyone uses.
Yes, we can all make long lists of open source projects. That's not my point. The point is that the average person, on an average day, is using lots of proprietary software (or proprietary forks of open source software).
I've been hearing about how the future of software is charging for support tickets and hand-waved 'integration' for 30 years. The biggest, richest and most powerful tech firms today all ignored that advice. There's only one company that did well out of that approach and they're now called IBM.
WTF are you talking about?
If any, science today it's made thanks to FLOSS software, propietary software it's the exception. And the trend it looking worse for propietary environments.
Money will come from support and integration, not for the software.
A complex, scientific related reproducible ad-hoc environment for Guix may cost a little more on a single PC than a a propietary OS license and setting up the rest for yourself, but you will be able to replicate that setup everywhere and forever and on a guaranteed basis that once your paper/experiment it's replicated, yo get the same environment no matter where and how. That's the difference.