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But Jellyfin is open source and doesn't try to force you to open an account.

I'm at the point now where I will always choose open source if the product is "good enough" even if it is not the best. Jellyfin is "good enough" for my needs at least.

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I have no problem paying for great software. There is an obvious quality difference between the two and it's completely worth it.

Sure, each person is free to have their own strategy. For me, I've been burned many times when commercial software was abondoned, or changed for the worst for financial reasons, or no longer works on my platform for some reason, or never gets some requested feature implemented, or is full of spy telemetry.

But I am not against commercial software and have no problem with others using it. Just not for me.

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