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It is hard to make a simil with addiction without having other connotations. Microsoft is a platform made on purpose to be incompatible with anything else and actively trying to keep you hooked and paying. That is the point, not death.

My father died from BSOD, you insensitive clod!

Dreams die.

and a company (thankfully) has the right to make money.

That you actually have to point this out on a site largely populated by people running startups is pretty sad.

That's actually the only place you'd have to point this out.

He doesn't have to point it out. RMS' issue isn't that Microsoft make money. It's the way in which they make it.

Similarly, I support and enjoy capitalism yet that doesn't mean I support Rockefeller murdering his competitors.