You all are using windows?
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My Linux Mint laptop is being whiny, so I'm using my emergency Windows 10 laptop rn.
Basically every device sold with windows is licensed, and the cost of the license is baked in
Every business and government in the world? Once when I started a new job, the IT guy asked if I needed to use things like Word or Excel, because it's $500 per year per employee for an Office365 subscription and they're trying to keep the costs down. That's on top of the Windows subscription.
I wouldn’t say every business, I’ve definitely worked somewhere where all our machines were cracked. but that’s going to be the exception not the rule obviously.
Back when I was in the Army... we definitely had some means to tactically acquire Windows licenses.
I worked IT in the Army and whenever they asked me how I did it, I told them to not worry about it.
We also never paid for winrar. So if you wonder where that huge budget goes to, it is not to Windows Licenses or Winrar.
I’m working at a university, and hoo boy, did we use a lot of cracked shit. And funniest thing is that half of that shit can be acquired legally for free as part of education licensing.
I’m happy to be the part of reason why in recent years my department has been shifting towards FOSS alternatives. Like yeah, it’s not morally wrong to pirate from the likes of Adobe or Microsoft, but I’m not a fan of people even simply making a habit of using software from aforementioned companies.
I own a few LTSC licences for W10 and W11.
I buy them from a grey market seller based in Europe for about $25 a piece
I bought a license for my custom PC.
...They were good for ~2 years until a Win11 update, which then said its invalid. Now it keeps prompting me to buy a new one.
Never again.
Corporate aside I've interacted with more people who paid for winrar than windows.