Re: The problem with not owning the software

On 31 Dec 2024 19:52:24 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:

Face it, there never have been such kind of artificial roadblocks,
ever from NT via 2000, XP, Vista, 7 and 8[.1] all the way up to 10. That
spans some 32 years. Not bad, I would say.

Microsoft had enough trouble with natural roadblocks just from its own
brain-dead design decisions, it didn’t need very many artificial ones.

But of course it had those, too: like the limit on the number of
simultaneous network shares that could be served up, which was higher in
the “Pro” version of Windows but not really lifted until you paid lots
extra for “Server”.

  FYI, please don't try to start a Windows versus Linux dispute with me.
I started with Unix/UNIX systems when both memory sizes were expressed
in KB and disk sizes were expressed in (a few) MB.

I’m sure you did. And I started with OSes that made Unix look big and
bulky.