in brazil, we used to have a law forcing for this to be a thing. back in the laptop days, it used to be reasonably common for people to buy one without windows, and pirate it later. or with linux with the intention of formatting it. or because it was cheaper.
it turns out brazil fomented a big userbase for linux for a while there. if this is widespread i’m pretty sure adoption will grow for the simple fact people will at least get to try it. free market my ass, microsoft is an oligopoly.
in brazil, we used to have a law forcing for this to be a thing. back in the laptop days, it used to be reasonably common for people to buy one without windows, and pirate it later. or with linux with the intention of formatting it. or because it was cheaper.
it turns out brazil fomented a big userbase for linux for a while there. if this is widespread i’m pretty sure adoption will grow for the simple fact people will at least get to try it. free market my ass, microsoft is an oligopoly.
Used to have? Not anymore?
i wanted to say we still do but im not sure. its been a while since i shopped for one.
Wouldn’t be surprised if Bolsonaro had gotten pocketed a kickback from MS to quietly remove that law’s teeth.