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Microsoft wanted you to buy their software. Google gives it away for free. That's the only thing I've come up with that explains the enduring romance.
by mattjsmith 9y ago
Microsoft wanted you to buy their software. Google gives it away for free. That's the only thing I've come up with that explains the enduring romance.
- wef23f 9y agoHaving a monopoly and abusing it are two different things. MS was in a position to abuse it because no one could switch to OSX or Linux without huge expense; hard to run win32 apps. Google is waaaay different. Alternatives that work just as well exist, and they exist for the same "free as in beer" to users as numerous alternatives. Are we to punish Google because people aren't switching from their from their products to alternatives?
- musage 9y agoIt's not "free", they give it away to sell ads. With Microsoft, before the constant update stuff, you could at least say you buy version X of product Y and then you have that, like some tool in a tool shed. Now that's a shifting mess of attached strings, too, but Google was never anything but that.