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dandelion_lover on June 9, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: We won the battle for Linux, but we're losing the ...

The difference is that the users of Windows have no choice. Microsoft takes advantage of the situation. Canonical has no such advantage, but they surely would like to, according to this precedent.

hvis on June 9, 2016 [–]

That is too weak a precedent to be making a strong accusation like this.

It was one misstep. They have done, and continue to do, a lot of things right.

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