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[-] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 39 points 1 year ago

Today Gates openly concedes that tolerating piracy turned out to be Microsoft's best long-term strategy. That's why Windows is used on an estimated 90% of China's 120 million PCs. "It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not," Gates says.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2007/jul/18/winningthrough

[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure that was recently patched, as in last week, though it was open for years. Im sure something will take its place

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