Are discount Windows 10 licenses legal, and do they work?

[NikoB]

In any country, there is nothing criminal in selling the keys to someone else's apartment (to use an analogy understandable to most), but you still do not have the right to enter this apartment if you are not its owner. This is also approximately the case with the sale of keys to someone's software. If this is not a sale of the right to use software from a copywriter who has an agreement (through a chain of intermediaries) with a company that owns exclusive copyrights, you are still a pirate. The majority of the population is illiterate and does not understand this. What pirates use all over the planet with pleasure. On the other hand, M$ in many countries is actually a monopoly (company with an overwhelming market share) in the OS market. And with a monopoly, it cannot independently set prices for its products - the prices are set by the antimonopoly department, taking into account local realities, as in all other markets where there is no real competition. Moreover, M$ sets prices equal to those in the US and the EU (where high salaries are incomparable with third world countries). That is why piracy flourishes - the deliberately inadequate level of prices for software in third world countries, where the income of the population is several times less than the income in the developed countries of the West, and software manufacturers completely ignore this fact, most often through corruption of the antimonopoly authorities of developing countries.