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antninja on Oct 8, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Today's XKCD: Microsoft

They have a local monopoly on their hardware. It's like cable companies: there may be several of them in a country but if there's only one in each city, they have a local monopoly that they can abuse.

sujal on Oct 8, 2012 [–]

Your individual hardware is not like a city. Poor analogy.

This is like saying that your microwave manufacturer has a monopoly on your microwave. Just buy another microwave.

sjwright on Oct 8, 2012 | [–]

I installed Linux on my microwave.

Just kidding. I wish I could though.

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