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Old 11-09-2010, 11:15 PM
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Bill Gates paid about fifty grand for DOS written by some smart uni professor. Bill Gates decided he now owned this software but his market plan was to license it to IBM and any user. You all know the rest. Countless versions of software that was marginal at best and pathetic at worst.

Their marketing plan is to repeatedly sell you a junk OS that will finally work in the next version. Then if you read the EULA thingy you are only allowed to give MS lots of money for the privilege of a load of junk that you can use only if they let you.
Couldn't agree more. No experience with Apple and haven't used MS for 8 years privately. Don't miss it and thankfully Pixinsight build for many of the major desktops. Ask the open source community about their battles.
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