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[-] Beaver@lemmy.ca 31 points 2 months ago

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

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 months ago

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

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 19 points 2 months ago

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

[-] luciole@beehaw.org 6 points 2 months ago

Gotta chase that perpetual growth.

[-] Beaver@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months 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

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months 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.

[-] Gerudo@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

Office is what pays the bills. Everything else is icing on top.

[-] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

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

this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2024
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