[conspire] Linux Installfest in Alameda, Saturday Aug. 30

[Don Marti]

On 8/31/25 09:59, Tony Godshall wrote:

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>
>     Remember netbooks? MSFT did a whole low-cost licensing scheme for a
>     product category where Linux was starting to catch on. 
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>
> I had an Asus eee.  The storage was really small and wore out quick.
>
>     It might turn out
>     that most of the end user benefit of the "endof10" trend is that MSFT
>     decides to back off on EOLing and/or growth hacking for a large
>     number
>     of their existing users. 
>
>
> 10 was supposed to be the ultimate, that Windows would be 10 forever 
> with no more major-numbered updates, just minor patches
>
>     A small win for each user but a large benefit
>     in total which I have no problem with claiming credit for.
>
>
> Maybe explain this a little more?

Paul Krugman explains it best, in 
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-general-theory-of-enshittification

(as many people as possible please archive a copy of that since it's on 
Substack which is unavoidably on the enshittification cycle)

Platform companies can only turn up the value extraction after they have 
lock-in (or at least a cooperating oligopoly like Google+Meta in the ad 
business). As long as the fraction of MSFT users who could realistically 
switch to Linux is high enough, MSFT can't move to the next stage.
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