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Story: It's not the Gates, it's the bars

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did not have to buy Microsoft products.

If I go into a store and buy a new computer, I am going to have to buy it with windows pre-installed, unless I buy a MAC. I'm spending my money, but I don't have a choice of buying this computer without an OS. Microsoft has the manufacturers and the resellers locked in by contract to only sell Microsoft products. If I get home and I format the drive and install Linux I have still paid for windows and it is counted as a sale for Microsoft, and I am considered a windows user because I paid for a license. I don't own the software, as Microsoft tells me how I can use it, I only have a license to use their software. Call it anything you want to this is not right. I downloaded my copies of Linux and am running it on 3 machines, but I am allowed to put it on as many machines as I want. I can make copies and give to as many people as I want. I can remaster the CD and personalize it for myself or anyone else. Face it, Linux is the future, and I think Microsoft is extremely afraid of what is coming.

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