Tsepkalo vs. Linux

During the online conference on the website of the newspaper SB, Valery Tsepkalo , director of the administration of the Belarusian Park of High Technologies, said the following:

“ My opinion is that the free system cannot provide competitiveness at the proper level, and ultimately it becomes as expensive as licensed software. Remember the "Lexicon". Our programmers did it, no one paid for it. As a result, he could not develop. Microsoft, from my point of view, was even less preferable, but they paid for it. Where is Lexicon now, and where is Microsoft? So there always arises the question of the relationship between price and quality, between payment for the service and the need to do everything yourself. You can take the laundry to the laundry and pay the money, or you can wash it yourself. You can pay for Microsoft, or adapt Linux on your own. each path chooses by itself. "

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As they say, "no words." The person who was appointed as the head of such a large-scale project cannot distinguish between “free” software and “free” software ...