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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
How is Microsoft going to fund ongoing OS development? These are questions that directly affect "free" in the long term. And they are unanswered...
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Support, support licenses, customized OEM versions for manufacturers, possibly premium services, revenue from the built-in app/software store, their own software products like Office and Skype, and so on.
I don't mind paying for a Windows license. I don't usually work for free, and I don't expect others to work for free for me, either. I probably prefer that to the Google business model of spying on the user and monetizing the information that is gained that way.