You must have missed the 90s jokes, where it was impossible to purchase a PC without Windows already installed and charged to you. We called it "the Microsoft tax".
And today, with a virtual monopoly on business desktops, it operates much as a government, everybody has to pay. By far Microsoft's largest customers are the three levels of government; about a third of their income is "taxpayer money".
Similarly, the huge inefficiencies in Canadian monopolies and oligopolies (groceries, telecom, banks) because they have captive markets, are a tax upon the whole economy.
At least Microsoft isn't operated with taxpayer money.
You must have missed the 90s jokes, where it was impossible to purchase a PC without Windows already installed and charged to you. We called it "the Microsoft tax".
And today, with a virtual monopoly on business desktops, it operates much as a government, everybody has to pay. By far Microsoft's largest customers are the three levels of government; about a third of their income is "taxpayer money".
Similarly, the huge inefficiencies in Canadian monopolies and oligopolies (groceries, telecom, banks) because they have captive markets, are a tax upon the whole economy.