On 11/15/2008 12:47 PM, Peter Dobratz wrote:
While I don't judge them as crapware, many are useful pieces of software with expiration dates. All of a sudden you try to edit a document and find your software license expired and you have no choice but to buy the licensed version. (Most people don't know about FOSS).while we're throwing pennies around, I think a lot of time when you buy a computer with Windows, you're actually getting the Windows OS and a bunch of other software that you'd rather not have (crapware). These are programs that have some means of generating revenue for their makers and the software makers pay the PC manufacturer to have them pre-installed. These programs are usually Windows-only, so you end up not getting them with Linux.
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