• Beaver@lemmy.ca
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    25 days ago

    Microsoft wants everyone to suffer. Even the smarter windows users.

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      25 days ago

      You would think they make enough on their corporate licenses to cover the cost of home users and whatever piracy still exists.

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        25 days ago

        There’s no such thing as enough in this capitalist wasteland.

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        25 days ago

        I was sucker back then as I paid for a home license for $165 cad though I rectified the mistake by donating more to Linux projects all together

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          24 days ago

          Same, I bought 7 and 10 but have since put more into Debian, Wikipedia, Archive.org and some other projects than I will ever spend again on a Windows license.

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      23 days ago

      Smartest users are already using OpenShell and don’t have anything to fear, at least from this change… for now…