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Re:Why does Cloudflare Pages have such a generous Free tier? by Brian_K_White on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @06:06PM (#42718488)
Autocad 10-12 back in college. Cost thousands of dollars in 80s/90s dollars, Not officially allowed to copy, but in reality effortless to copy and run at home for free.

There were other products aiming to be just as good at the same time that were actually protected with dongles and such.

The one that everyone could run at home is the one that took over the world.

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Re:Why does Cloudflare Pages have such a generous Free tier? by taneq on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @10:18PM (#42720666)
Same with Photoshop, and Windows, and plenty of others. Intentional or not, the ease of copying these products is what made them ubiquitous.
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Re:Why does Cloudflare Pages have such a generous Free tier? by akoboldfrying on Thursday January 16, 2025 @05:10AM (#42723493)
I think Windows was ubiquitous because for a long time there was nothing else usable for Joe Average on PCs, and PCs were essentially the only game in town until Apple got its act together.
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