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Personally I don't want my computer to become little more than an ad delivery mechanism. I can't think of anything worse than embedding ads directly into the OS, wasting yet more of my time.

"I see that you wanted to open a terminal window, but before I can do that for you here's a special message from our sponsors..."

In the Windows world crapware on new PCs is bad enough. Most people hated popup/under ads and went to some lengths to block them, so that historical precedent would suggest to me that this isn't going to work very well as a business practice.



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