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by ninjalanternshk 31 days ago
Heh.

> MS Linux is released under the provisions of the Gates Private License, which means you can freely use this Software on a single machine without warranty after having paid the purchase price and annual renewal fees.

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It arose as a joke site from /., when and where people still had a sense of humor.
Good times. Reminds me of the following[1] classic: "What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit By A Bus?" - An Empirical Study

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20150621191048/http://segfault.o...

It's funny how back in the days we used to think the worse a big corporation could do is charge you money. Those were simpler times.