The fact that free software exists for the Windows platform has little to do with Microsoft giving software away. To the contrary, most of the software written for the Windows platform (free or otherwise) is produced by other companies BESIDES Microsoft.
What irks me is their upcoming business plan of making their software liscensing scheme work like a magazine subscription; you won't BUY software, but rather RENT or LEASE it, and have to pay again later on down the road if you wish to use it past the liscense's "expiration date".
I'm sorry, but when that day comes, I'm backing up my data and taking a very powerful electromagnet to my hard drives... then loading the Intel build of Darwin on the now-virgin magnetic media previously occupied by WinBlows....
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The fact that free software exists for the Windows platform has little to do with Microsoft giving software away. To the contrary, most of the software written for the Windows platform (free or otherwise) is produced by other companies BESIDES Microsoft.
What irks me is their upcoming business plan of making their software liscensing scheme work like a magazine subscription; you won't BUY software, but rather RENT or LEASE it, and have to pay again later on down the road if you wish to use it past the liscense's "expiration date".
I'm sorry, but when that day comes, I'm backing up my data and taking a very powerful electromagnet to my hard drives... then loading the Intel build of Darwin on the now-virgin magnetic media previously occupied by WinBlows....