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Free windows?
| Hm, odd. Perhaps one reason might be that you opted for a proprietary operating system.
| there was a short period when Windows was free so maybe because of that
| >>025f68
>i'll come to this thread and bitch about muh proprietary software instead of answering OP's question
| >>368420
GNU/Linux is a free, open, extendable and modifiable operating system. Windows is a business model. In order of that OPs question is clearly not about /tech/ but about a businesses model. Since it is /tech/ and not /business/ OP could either ask the provider (microsoft) or business experts in a according board.
| >this thread
*tips fedora*
| >>368583 get off that high horse you pretentious penguin. Any kind of software, whether proprietary or open source is just a tool. This is specifically about tech and not at all about business. She is not asking 'why is it free?' but 'how does it work?'
Now
>sudo gtfo
| >>368723
The problem arises when the business practices one company chooses to pursue interfere with the usability of their tools. Windows is unusable for a person used to having true freedom over their computing. Sure, let's not talk about the ethics of these corporations. But this still leaves you with essentialy crippled software.
| >>368723
>She is not asking 'why is it free?' but 'how does it work?'
You can't answer the question "how does it work" on proprietary software. No one knows how it works. It's exclusive knowledge of the proprietary software developers. So this is why >>368305
| https://support.microsoft.com/en-us
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| I reinstalled Windows, but this time I selected Home instead Pro and it activated itself via "digital license". Why?