They’ll make a new entity that extracts most of the profit while the production facility operates at cost or even a loss. Jurisdiction shopping is a thing even within the US.

Windows 11 doing this is more ewaste not less. It’s more ewaste even if 100% of the existing stock gets reused because some (many?) of those computers will get replaced with new ones.

People are downvoting you but you’re absolutely right.

I sincerely doubt this is accurate or why would they even bother.

What a waste of plastic for something that’s just getting tossed at the end of the movie.