Subj : Re: SSH on BBSes
To   : Nightfox
From : claw
Date : Wed Apr 27 2022 20:12:55

 Ni> "Piracy" was Microsoft's reasoning for requiring OEMs to buy a license
 Ni> for Windows for every PC they sell?  I'd have thought they'd be more
 Ni> concerned about end users at home (building their own PC) pirating
 Ni> Windows.  I thought PC OEMs (at least in the US) were generally pretty
 Ni> good about buying legit Windows licenses for their PCs.  But I guess
 Ni> there were many people who would buy a pre-built PC, and they'd have no
 Ni> reason to pirate Windows if the PC already came with a Windows license.

I seem to remember reading an article somewhere about how MS was going to have hardware vendors of all sorts pay what would basically be a MS tax and then they were going to just give windows away.  So effectively building a PC would still result in paying for a license.  I don't don't know what ever happened to that idea.  

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