There are many apps on my iphone that came bundled with it that I never use.<p>I&#x27;m a bit surprised. Most people in the 90&#x27;s that I knew who ran Linux either repurposed an old machine to it that would otherwise have been scrap, or assembled a machine from parts. In neither case did they buy a Windows license for it.<p>I remember an Amazon employee telling me that it was hard to buy a Linux machine without Windows on it. I pointed out that Amazon at the time was selling a Linux machine buyable with &quot;one click&quot;.<p>Anybody could make and sell CPUs without a license from Microsoft. It wasn&#x27;t hard at all (just buy the components in bulk). Nor was it illegal. The issue was that people wanted to buy Windows machines.