[GTALUG] "dd" in Windows?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 11:23:46AM +0200, ac via talk wrote:
> Is Microsoft Windows now completely "free" as in GPL/Opensource?
> 
> Can anyone download it, install it and then pay no money and get free
> support on Linux lists?
> 
> Or are there free Microsoft Support Users Lists?
> 
> I feel so left out of this entire conversation as I know almost nothing
> about Microsoft or Windows 10. It feels like this conversation has
> nothing to do with me. To make things worse, for me, I do daily battle
> with Outlook.com and all the rubbish, cyber crime and attacks from them
> as they succeed in mixing ham and spam and cyber crime and malware with
> legit email. My clients are ignorant as to who is relaying spam, cyber crime and
> rubbish and Microsoft seems to sometimes directly attack me. Between
> Microsoft and Google (Google does the same thing) they are effective
> at dominating, dividing and destroying.
> 
> I actually do HATE @microsoft and @google behavior, strategy and lack
> of ethics and common decency.
> 
> Now, I have to read about Microsoft and in a support and "helping" way...
> 
> When their other products are plain evil. So I guess the strategy is no
> longer make money from operating systems but generate forever payments
> from Office and by dominating business email relay and "subscriptions" 

I assumed someone was trying to create a linux install USB and only had
windows available to do it.  Not an uncommon starting point.

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Len Sorensen