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Re:Viral 'I'm not a cat' filter is decades-old software by toast0 on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @09:19PM (#26097493)
Apple's market share also pales in comparison with Microsoft's.

I'm pretty sure Apple never made anyone selling an iPhone pay them for an iOS license on all the phones they sell.

That's not to say Apple's conduct isn't egregious, but the context isn't the same either.

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Re:Viral 'I'm not a cat' filter is decades-old software by franga2000 on Thursday February 11, 2021 @04:29AM (#26099748)
> I'm pretty sure Apple never made anyone selling an iPhone pay them for an iOS license on all the phones they sell.

That's a wildly different situation. Of course Microsoft charges hardware vendors for Windows licenses - we have to pay for them too! Windows is Microsoft's main product - should they be giving away licenses to vendors?!? (I'm ignoring the underlying issue of sell vs produce here, because it's such a clear fallacy it's not even worth explaining)

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Re:Viral 'I'm not a cat' filter is decades-old software by toast0 on Thursday February 11, 2021 @12:08PM (#26104148)
Microsoft was charging vendors for Windows licenses per computer; even computers that were sold without Windows.
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Re:Viral 'I'm not a cat' filter is decades-old software by franga2000 on Thursday February 11, 2021 @12:15PM (#26104242)
Huh, I've never heard of that...
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Re:Viral 'I'm not a cat' filter is decades-old software by toast0 on Thursday February 11, 2021 @02:40PM (#26106113)
It was a sizable part of the big Microsoft anti-trust case. And also an earlier case except for MS-DOS instead of Windows.
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