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[โ€“] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Are they still doing that thing where OEMs pay licenses based on units sold regardless of OS? So even if you want Linux, they still have to pay for windows?

[โ€“] toddestan@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

As far as I'm aware, they had to stop doing that some time ago.