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submitted 11 months ago by downdaemon@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

My mom bought a used laptop absolutely riddled with spyware, linux isn't an option

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[-] Bonehead@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

How do you think they became the defacto OS for consumer PCs?

[-] hiddengoat@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

By being smart enough to get their OS packaged with new retail PCs in the 90's while the market for them was just warming up. They kept their stranglehold going by not caring too hard about piracy. Just enough to keep from losing any trademark considerations.

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