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Sure, many commercial programs are examples of bloatware, for two reasons: first they often try to accommodate a variety of user choices, and second, they are (usually) written in very high level languages which sometimes don't become optimized in terms of space. (Does anyone doing commerical work actually program in assembly language any more?)
The problem with bloatware seems to be the annoyance we have when our hardware devices run out of speed and/or memory. So maybe we should point some of our fingers at Dell for marketing a machine which would soon start to go obsolete. On the other hand, if Dell did otherwise, the cost of the machine would become more and more bloated.
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