XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.advocacy
From: pothead@snakebite.com
On 2025-09-01, Alan wrote:
> On 2025-08-31 14:37, Joel W. Crump wrote:
>> On 8/30/2025 8:22 PM, pothead wrote:
>>
>>>> I gave away a $200 Windows license to switch to Linux, and I've donated
>>>> money to a distro.
>>>
>>> You paid $200 for a Windows license?
>>
>>
>> That's the retail price of Windows Pro, yes, I had the money at the time
>> and while it turned out my existing license was transferable from my
>> 2010 computer (just using the Win7 Pro key I had purchased with its
>> parts), it doesn't bother me because unlike some cheapskate fuckwads I'm
>> not afraid of paying my way, even if it's to a company "with a billion
>> dollars" or whatever, they didn't make a billion by not selling their
>> wares, FFS.
>>
>>
>>> You can get it legally for ~$20.
>>
>>
>> Those licenses work, and my new mini PC basically has one (the China-
>> based manufacturer used multiple activation key to activate what they
>> produced, not a true Microsoft OEM therefore but it is a legit license),
>> but I would never buy from the people selling them, what I got with my
>> new device is OK for what it is, but in its case I didn't purchase the
>> license myself, so it's not really my responsibility when Microsoft is
>> tolerating the practice.
>>
>>
>>> Too many red pills mixed with the blue ones?
>>
>>
>> You're free to be a cheapskate all you want, don't judge me for doing
>> the right thing, sheesh.
> The irony of someone who complains about the cost of Apple's devices
> calling someone else a "cheapskate"...
Touche'
And BTW, Microsoft takes no issue with using a resellers key.
Joel is just a sucker. In more ways than one :)
--
pothead
"Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices.
Then our choices make us."
-- Anne Frank
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