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It is really nice to see an alternative to US corporate tech making in roads. But to get the numbers even higher the US needs to ban the Chinese and Russians from using Windows and I hope they do.

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rottingleaf@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

But to get the numbers even higher the US needs to ban the Chinese and Russians from using Windows and I hope they do.

It’s been not that long since most of Windows installations in Russia were pirated ones, with MS updates turned off (in case they try something).

There’s a popular opinion that MS liked it this way - they get just as huge a userbase as everywhere else, and they don’t have to change pricing policy to make it affordable in ex-USSR.

I’m not sure if there’s point to talking seriously about Western software licensing in China.

My point is that numbers won’t get higher for such reasons.

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