XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-09-01 08:43, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   > On 8/31/2025 10:13 PM, 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"...   
   >   
   >   
   > If overpaying for hardware to get great software support is a plus for   
   > Apple, good for them.  I prefer to think of Windows and Linux as being   
   > intended to reach a range of hardware, I can switch to Linux any time,   
   > but Microsoft is giving me a real choice that makes me want to   
   > indefinitely wait on that.   
   >   
      
   Way to utterly miss the point.   
      
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