It started because I was poor and resented the idea of paying for software. Then I became a professional developer and the advantages of the OS became more obvious. This was ~15 years ago.
Since then the enshittification of MS has made me more and more confident in my decision.








This right here is the core of the problem, and it isn’t unique to the TFW program. We write these carefully crafted laws and then don’t fund enforcement.
I think we ought to just drop the program. It doesn’t help Canadians (besides business owners who want cheap labour) and we clearly can’t make it live up to our aspirations.