Leaving aside how insane and petty charging for solitaire makes them look, there's a caveat to 'the OS is free'. Fact is, the OS was free to the vast majority

Leaving aside how insane and petty charging for solitaire makes them look, there's a caveat to 'the OS is free'. Fact is, the OS was free to the vast majority before, either through OEMs, corporate systems, or pirating. So to most people, it's not a case of the OS becoming free; rather it appears to them that the OS is becoming less free as ads and paywalls appear.