27 points | by ok123456 14 hours ago ago
9 comments
This is genious, whoever came up with it!
Imagine doing that in pharma also: you pay a regular monthly fee for the side effects of the medical drugs you took (caused by the pharma company, not by you).
This is literally the plot context of a recent Black Mirror episode. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30127325/
> Windows Server 2025
Over on the consumer side, I'd rather pay $1.50 to permanently regain full control over when the computer I own reboots for updates.
(Yes yes, insert Use Linux Joke here.)
I would hate to be the Microsoft account manager having to explain this fee to a CIO. Especially when Linux kernel livepatch is free.
Goes hand in hand with the paid Microsoft Extended Security Updates service for "legacy" operating systems.
incentivizing themselves for building a broken system, you can do anything if you have a majority of market share
Get ready to see a lot more hotfixes...
Chiselers.
Obligatory "I'm gonna write myself a new minivan this afternoon"
This is genious, whoever came up with it!
Imagine doing that in pharma also: you pay a regular monthly fee for the side effects of the medical drugs you took (caused by the pharma company, not by you).
This is literally the plot context of a recent Black Mirror episode. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30127325/
> Windows Server 2025
Over on the consumer side, I'd rather pay $1.50 to permanently regain full control over when the computer I own reboots for updates.
(Yes yes, insert Use Linux Joke here.)
I would hate to be the Microsoft account manager having to explain this fee to a CIO. Especially when Linux kernel livepatch is free.
Goes hand in hand with the paid Microsoft Extended Security Updates service for "legacy" operating systems.
incentivizing themselves for building a broken system, you can do anything if you have a majority of market share
Get ready to see a lot more hotfixes...
Chiselers.
Obligatory "I'm gonna write myself a new minivan this afternoon"