They still profit. Windows is increasingly an ad platform with ads delivered directly to your start menu.

You also get included in their user statistics when they report such things publicy, and therefore help toward selling their value as an investment.

This is not a US specific issue, tbh. I’ve heard this weird belief repeated by all sorts of people.

shakes fist THE DANES!

That’s how you definitely get invaded. Cover Canada in spikes before you do something like that.

Never thought I’d ever say it, but I’m not terribly opposed to an independent Canadian nuclear deterrent these days.

I can think of no other workable solution if we’re serious about remaining Canadian. The Ricans would steamroll us conventionally. Without a credible deterrent, Slobba the Slut could very well ramble himself incoherently from ‘economic pressure’ to ‘occupational force.’ We don’t know what his puppetmasters and wormtongues are whispering in his ear, or how far he and his sycophants are willing to go for a cheaper egg.