I paid for a ticket to the Windows 7 launch event back in the days. Cost a few euros, in return I got a day of talks, networking, a laptop bag full of sweets and a retail copy of Windows 7 Ultimate. The serial also worked for Windows 10 and 11, so I’d say that was a pretty sweet deal. I honestly cannot say if that technically counts as having paid for Windows though.
I paid once for a full license for Windows 98, not an OEM one that comes with a computer. They then gave free upgrades indefinitely since technically it was always the same computer, so I only needed one copy. Simplified it by avoiding a lot of the pirating crack issues and risks. Every other computer than that desktop has always had Linux, and now it does too since I dont really do much gaming anymore.
Heh. Paid for Win 7. Still not ashamed. Best system I had, even if it had it’s weird stuff. And it’s licence carried on to Win 10 and prolly 11. Cannot say with 11 as I am highly uninterested in it xD
Please, i never once paid for windows either.
I did and it was every bit as degrading as you might imagine.
Hey now, most of us didn’t imagine that we were funding Bill Gates to go get an STI from Russian children. That adds a layer.
Just imagine the stuff with the lid still on…
All I knows is that FOSS folks are too poor and on the spectrum to get wrapped up in this kind of shit.
I’m not touching that one with a 9 foot pole.
… Is what many Russian kids wished they could have said.
wow. dark. I mean, it’s lemmy and everything but wow.
I’ve been thinking about it for a couple days. Buying MS Office indirectly contributed to it. I’ve done it, many have.
Makes me feel great about being on Linux now, though.
Eh, whatever floats your boat, I say, no kink shaming
It didn’t float my boat.
Same… Multiple times.
I paid for a ticket to the Windows 7 launch event back in the days. Cost a few euros, in return I got a day of talks, networking, a laptop bag full of sweets and a retail copy of Windows 7 Ultimate. The serial also worked for Windows 10 and 11, so I’d say that was a pretty sweet deal. I honestly cannot say if that technically counts as having paid for Windows though.
I paid once for a full license for Windows 98, not an OEM one that comes with a computer. They then gave free upgrades indefinitely since technically it was always the same computer, so I only needed one copy. Simplified it by avoiding a lot of the pirating crack issues and risks. Every other computer than that desktop has always had Linux, and now it does too since I dont really do much gaming anymore.
Tbh now gaming just works on Linux. I primarily game and I see no reason to ever go back.
Well, Microsoft didn’t offer it to you freely…
I paid for windows 10. Still have the install disk and everything, got it at Fry’s RIP.
Heh. Paid for Win 7. Still not ashamed. Best system I had, even if it had it’s weird stuff. And it’s licence carried on to Win 10 and prolly 11. Cannot say with 11 as I am highly uninterested in it xD
Mac OS has been free since the 2000s, but I hadn’t paid for it before then either. All the way back to system 7.