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Free Win 10 for Pierats
From: 99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)
18 Mar 2015 21:18
To: ANT_THOMAS
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No, when I bought the computer it came with (thinks...) Snow Leopard? Dunno, it's a mid 2010 Mac, and my memory doesn't go back that far.
From: 99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)
18 Mar 2015 21:22
To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
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Over 4 years ago. Big deal. Early upgrades were cheap*, but IIRC Mavericks was free.
* certainly compared to Windows, not compared to free-but-no-one-other-than-geeks-and-tightarses-want-to-use-it Linux
From: ANT_THOMAS
18 Mar 2015 21:28
To: 99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)
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But you had to buy a Mac to get OS X. Not free.
From: 99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)
18 Mar 2015 21:41
To: ANT_THOMAS
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I could still be using the original OS X. That wouldn't be free. But the (recent) upgrades have been.
You cannot run Linux on thin air. You have to buy/build a computer. Not free. It might be cheaper than a Mac, but that's the price you pay for a free OS.
And the thread started as Windows-is-now-free. If you haven't got a PC, you will still need to buy one to run Win10. But if you already have a PC you can upgrade to Win10 for free. Bit that's already the case for OS X.
That is all. Imma dun.
From: ANT_THOMAS
18 Mar 2015 21:44
To: 99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)
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Still wrong. To be able to get the current free OS X upgrades you had to spend some money to get the original OS X you had by buying a Mac.
Obviously hardware to run it an OS isn't free, but Apple aren't giving away OS X for free, you have to buy a Mac.
From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)
19 Mar 2015 04:22
To: ANT_THOMAS
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Yeah but once you've
bought
the £20 rPi to run Linux or £2500 iMac to run OSX
then
it's free. So it's basically the same thing. Right?
From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)
19 Mar 2015 04:24
To: All
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There's free and then there's
Free
.
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
20 Mar 2015 09:43
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http://venturebeat.com/2015/03/19/microsoft-says-free-windows-10-upgrades-for-pirates-will-be-non-genuine-and-unsupported-stays-mum-on-security/
From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)
20 Mar 2015 09:54
To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
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Well that's disappointing. Making Win10 free for everyone (including pirates) was one of the smartest things MS have done for a long time. This pretty much negates that entirely.
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
20 Mar 2015 15:20
To: Drew (X3N0PH0N)
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You're free to pirate windows!