On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 12:29:24AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-12-25 at 00:01 -0500, stan wrote:
> > I bought a machine with Linspire preloaded on it today. Nice machien,
> > and cheaper than I could build it. A bit short on RAM, and the CD is a
> > reader only (no CD writer or DVD). But great value for the $299.
> >
> > Reading through the manual that comes with it, I find no information as
> > to how to use the preloaded software, but quite a bit of nformation
> > relative to wiping it and installing various flabors of M$ OS'es.
> >
> > Here's my concern. It appears that the promary intent of this is not to
> > encourage the new users that might buy this amchine to learn to use
> > Linux, but instead a way to sell them a machine W/O the M% tax, and
> > encourage them to load a pirated copy of a M$ OS on it.
> >
> > This really seems like a bad light to cast the Linux comunity in, IMHO.
> >
> > What are otheres prespective on this?
>
> Where did you buy it? Maybe *they* are just using it as a way to
> sell sans-MS-tax systems. But if that's the case, they should
> ship it with FreeDOS, instead.
>
Frye's
Yes FreeDos would be a cleaner choice for that.
My problem with this is the "arua' it casts for new users aeound Linux.
They could come away with the impression thta Linux people are just a
bunch of "rip off" artitsts.
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neither liberty nor safety."
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