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Re:The End of Windows by pythonaut_16 on Monday April 02, 2018 @11:47AM (#16735577)
This is blatantly false. You're assuming that people only use Linux because they don't want to pay or deal with licensing complexities of Microsoft which is not the case.
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Re:The End of Windows by jasonjayr on Monday April 02, 2018 @11:56AM (#16735685)
That's not the only reason. If the Windows platform brings more to the table than Linux, then for a developer that would weigh more heavily than the complexities of licensing it.

I've supported several Windows-centric SMB accounting platforms, including QuickBooks and trying to figure out the right way to license just Windows, in order to support High-availability or redundancy is headache-inducing at the SMB-sized server level.

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