I saw this post and wanted to ask the opposite. What are some items that really aren’t worth paying the expensive version for? Preferably more extreme or unexpected examples.

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    1 year ago

    As a foreign nation, why would you use a core piece of software on all your government computers? I’ll never understand why Windows is used in any secure government installation, let alone non-American ones.

    • belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org
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      Because Microsoft forces itself on countries with deals. Its how they have always done things. Contractual lock in until folks are stuck needing windows for proprietary software.

      Microsoft actively goes to schools and governments using linux or mac and makes cheap contracts, at first, to move them all and they bribe too.

      Monopoly is their goal always