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Originally Posted by MTI
If anything, Microsoft and Apple have made their software easier to obtain and provided so many discount classes, it's much better than the "good old days." Of course, it will never be as good as the old "sneaker-net" non-copy protected era, since free is pretty hard to beat.
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"Easy to obtain" doesn't have to imply a lockdown -- Android uses Google's store by default, but makes it trivial to download from any repository the user chooses, should they want to use non-approved software.
Online software repositories make good sense, but they don't have to be the ONLY easy source of software.