<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>totaldude87</author><text>VLC - though it doesn&amp;#x27;t cure cancer or anything , its a cure for video player industry(if one exist).. cant think of any other open source video players with billions of installs, and FREE.. calling someone who does opensource as idiot is just ridiculous..</text><parent_chain><item><author>bananasquash</author><text>freeware and people like you have killed indie development. Great software should be paid for. Unless or cures cancer or solves humanity’s issues, it should not he made available for free. Otherwise the author of a paid version is forced into office jobs because some idiot makes a free clone just to have something on their cv.</text></item><item><author>kache_</author><text>Every time I come across a paid 30 dollar version of software being sold for macos, I can find a free open source alternative that often works better pretty quickly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>List of open source applications for macOS</title><url>https://github.com/serhii-londar/open-source-mac-os-apps</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mhd</author><text>Meh, if the proprietary software has a good UI, it&amp;#x27;s going to do well -- open source tends to suck on that front, quite often because it&amp;#x27;s cross-platform and that doesn&amp;#x27;t favor the OS X look.&lt;p&gt;Sure, for programmers and command line users there will be alternatives, but that still leaves a large market.&lt;p&gt;Y&amp;#x27;know what&amp;#x27;s going to kill Apple indie development in our reality? Apple. A lot of the paid shareware has a long pedigree, and the upcoming de-Carbonization will put an end to many small-shop software.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bananasquash</author><text>freeware and people like you have killed indie development. Great software should be paid for. Unless or cures cancer or solves humanity’s issues, it should not he made available for free. Otherwise the author of a paid version is forced into office jobs because some idiot makes a free clone just to have something on their cv.</text></item><item><author>kache_</author><text>Every time I come across a paid 30 dollar version of software being sold for macos, I can find a free open source alternative that often works better pretty quickly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>List of open source applications for macOS</title><url>https://github.com/serhii-londar/open-source-mac-os-apps</url></story>