Yes exactly. Embrace and extinguish has always been Microsoft’s strategy. They’ll release their own distribution and either make it slower and more complicated than Windows, so that everyone thinks Windows is the better OS, or they’ll make it a cloud OS like Chrome, requiring recurring payments to use Office 365 and everything else.

Americans would do anything to not call a general strike.

Oh but it does. So much so, that even the clerk who was given the task remonstrated. You can look it up here: https://fragdenstaat.de/artikel/exklusiv/2025/04/proteste-berlin-ausweisung/

Her reasoning:

According to § 6 para. 2 sentence 1 FreizügG/EU, the fact of a criminal conviction alone is not sufficient to justify the aforementioned decisions or measures. Only criminal convictions that have not yet been expunged from the Federal Central Criminal Register may be taken into account, and only to the extent that the circumstances on which they are based indicate personal conduct that poses a current threat to the freedom of movement.