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> Dell has probably been the biggest vendor of Ubuntu machines, mostly in India and other poor countries. For $2 billion Microsoft gets to tell them to kill any
by cooldeal 14y ago
> Dell has probably been the biggest vendor of Ubuntu machines, mostly in India and other poor countries. For $2 billion Microsoft gets to tell them to kill any such Ubuntu or Android product line-ups, and any research involving them
In my experience, the vast majority of such devices are wiped and loaded with pirated Windows.
- amalag 14y agoThere is no good software in India and other countries for Linux. If you want to run business accounting software, you have to run Windows. And there the prices are so high for Windows and there is no enforcement, so they pirate. They do crackdown on things like Autocad for architects and animation software pretty hard though.
- yuhong 14y agoMS has tried to combat this by creating country-specific versions of Windows with activation limited to a specific country with lower prices.
- pm90 14y agoYes, its actually pretty despicable. For a house that my parents were considering buying, the architect showed them the floor plans, which was done in Autocad. I realized this not only because I'm familiar with the way Autocad prints look, but there were, in large letters printed 'FOR TRIAL USE ONLY' Until they start enforcing copyright protection, quality software alternatives will never get the boost they need.