XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-09-03 16:15, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   > On 9/2/2025 11:14 PM, Alan wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   >   
   > I admitted that Mac enthusiasts have reason to get what they wish to get.   
   >   
      
   The point is that you don't like the Mac because it costs too much (in   
   your opinion)...   
      
   ...but decry someone as a "cheapskate" for not wanting to spend ten   
   times as much for a Windows license as he needs to.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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