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What is up with the recent wave of relativism-type comments? "Yes, Facebook is bad, but what about Reddit?" "Yes, Microsoft is bad, but what about Google?" etc etc

They're not productive. Yet a ton of people are doing it. It almost smells like astroturf.

That's wrong, too, but the subject under discussion here is Microsoft.

Why should it be any different? Both are abuses of a monopoly position.

Because we paid money for this OS license, and we didn't go to Microsoft.com

Should Hulu's business model be illegal? Paid+ads is a valid product strategy and Win10 consumer editions follow this strategy.

you pay for windows and still get ads.

You pay for TV and still get ads. I'm more than happy to pay to remove ads but I think it's presumptuous to assume that if you pay any amount of money it's expected that it will be ad free.

I mean Red Hat has ads in their RHEL installer.

google.com is ad supported. I pay a ton of money for Windows.

> google.com is ad supported. I pay a ton of money for Windows.

I am the OP who called on Microsoft to stop this.

That being said, they upgraded me to Windows 10 for the low cost of $0.