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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)

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.
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...
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.