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[yellowapple]

> Likewise, North Korea has Red Star since 2008 which is mandatory or risk forced labor.

I wonder how true that really is, given the proliferation of ancient (i.e. pre-XP) versions of Windows in heavy use over there.

[TkTech → yellowapple]

The government still uses a majority mix of Windows and some OSX for the upper classes. For anyone else it's very much mandatory, and you need to be on a national registry just to legally own a computer, which is also how they ensure you update.