Quote Originally Posted by Sebastian Finke View Post
Free does not make it better. This is not subjective either. Even if freeware does the job it is nowhere near pro software in terms of functionality.
Where GPL and other stuff wins out is fixing bugs. It is massively better in that respect where bugs will be repaired within a couple of days as opposed to never (Micro$haft) / months or even years. It also has the advantage of allowing you to change things to make the software do what you need, A good example of that being Marlin / Inkscape where both pieces of software can be made to work with each other for your own specific requirements.
I would always says open source is better in my opinion.