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[โ€“] [email protected] 151 points 1 year ago (22 children)

OS-as-a-service needs to be made illegal, ffs

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

So what do you propose? You buy windows xp and you deserve free maintenance updates while windows 55 is out?

Me when I demand corporations pay people fairly for their work ๐Ÿคฌ Me when I demand free labour in 2045 because I paid 100โ‚ฌ in 2015 ๐Ÿ˜—

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago

Yes updates longer than 10 years without treating os as service and refusing paying is not relevant

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