• @thehatfox
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    2048 months ago

    With how aggressive Microsoft is becoming with ads, services, and data collection they could at least make Windows itself free.

    But no, you still have to pay £100+ per license to have the pleasure of putting up with this crap.

      • @Robin
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        838 months ago

        Piracy is not a real solution to the problem. Microsoft allows these sorts of things to exist in the background because they would rather lose out on some sales than lose market share.

        • @[email protected]
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          298 months ago

          Kinda the same thing as winrar. They rather have consumers get used to it so the companies they work at have a higher chance of buying licenses. That’s where the real money is.

        • @TheGrandNagus
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          258 months ago

          Ding ding ding!

          Like how Adobe puts minimal effort into protecting from cracks for their software.

          They’d much rather have little Jimmy and a million others pirate PS at home and get used to the workflow, so that businesses pay out big recurring fees for Adobe’s tools, which they will if that’s what everybody knows how to use.

        • @[email protected]
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          58 months ago

          Piracy is their weapon. If not for piracy, ex-USSR countries wouldn’t transition to Windows till around 2009, and I’d expect that in such an alternative reality they wouldn’t then too.

        • @[email protected]
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          48 months ago

          Piracy is the solution when what you think you’re buying is not what you’re getting and the company that you’re buying changes the product without your consent.