The bundled cartridges *aren't* "free," their price is just subsumed by the package price. And the damned OS isn't free, either. (A point you seemed to grasp just a couple lines earlier when you lament "paying more" for your beloved Windoze.) Here's a hint: what you pay for M$ software is a more-or-less direct function of what M$ charges the reseller, so go bitch to the boys in Redmond about their 25-plus percent margin in an industry typified by low single-digit margins. Or just go back to your game console.
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The bundled cartridges *aren't* "free," their price is just subsumed by the package price. And the damned OS isn't free, either. (A point you seemed to grasp just a couple lines earlier when you lament "paying more" for your beloved Windoze.) Here's a hint: what you pay for M$ software is a more-or-less direct function of what M$ charges the reseller, so go bitch to the boys in Redmond about their 25-plus percent margin in an industry typified by low single-digit margins. Or just go back to your game console.