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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
yo, microsatan doesnt demand i buy THEIR hardware. i can slap the OS onto whatever hardware is made to handle it. intel, amd, via, whoever makes cpus/chipsets, they don't care. that's how they fucked over IBM back in the DOS days. the PC clones took off, MS spread like fire, the rest is (now ancient) history. apple never learned that lesson, or chose consciously to remain a boutique product.
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true, there is no proprietary
hardware, but thats because microsoft doesnt make hardware. they are a software company that licenses its product to the hardware companies so naturally they dont care about your software cause they get the money no matter what. what microsoft DOES do is develop proprietary software that is only available for their operating system.
embrace, extend, extinguish.
those are the ethics microsoft lives by.
software should be free
free as in speech, free as in beer
have any of you acually read the EULA?