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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Because now that Windows 10 is going to be free for many many Windows users, the minority that is Linux users cannot say to use Linux because it's free. They are afraid for their minority OS being made even less relevant then it already is.
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That is not what Microsoft said. Microsoft said that Windows 10 is going to be free for a subset of users for the first year. We still don't have specifics on the paid subscriptions after that first year. There is not even a suggestion that the software that runs under Windows will be free (though you could always use a large collection of open source and freeware products on Windows).
And that's assuming that you believe that Linux users are rational. It is far more likely that a large cross section of Linux users believe that Microsoft is going to do some sort of bait-and-switch routine that will draw the ire of even more Windows users.
