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> They know Windows is loosing marketshare like crazy to Mac and Linux so they want as many people to keep using it as possible regardless if you pay for it or
by joshuaissac 3y ago
> They know Windows is loosing marketshare like crazy to Mac and Linux so they want as many people to keep using it as possible regardless if you pay for it or not.
That has been the case for a long time. Here is a quotation from Bill Gates from 2007:
> "It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not," Gates says. "Are you kidding? You can get the real thing, and you get the same price."
https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/07/23/100134488/ https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007...
- Obscurity4340 3y agoSo he's basically saying that he prefers people to be on Windows regardless of how they end up there because it gives the illusion of choice that fundamentally boosts Microsoft's uptake and pool of users/customers from which endless value is derived from their panopticon-of-an-OS? I might be reading a wee bit between the lines...