* Kjetil Kjernsmo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040211 09:35]: > On Wednesday 11 February 2004 18:07, David wrote: > > However, this could be a prime example of the class of people who > > definitely _should_ stick with windows.. > > And finance MS' robbery of our rights, including our right to receive > and impart information and ideas through any media and to participate > in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share > in scientific advancement and its benefits? > > As much as one hate the trolls and the abusive newbies, the alternative, > that they continue to pay MS money and allow them to retain the power > to strip us of our rights, is so much worse that I feel it is not > really an option.
Agreed. "No One is Free While Others Are Oppressed". Additionally, as long as windows machines run in such a computing monopoly and continue to flout standards and interoperability and fail at basic security, we all pay the price. We have web sites "designed for use with Internet Explorer" which refuse to work with standards-compliant browsers. We have the virus of the week (the payload doesn't hurt, but the joe-job bounces sure do), etc. So not only are others oppressed while using proprietary software such as windows, those systems in fact oppress all other systems, including free software users like us. Each time someone wipes a windows partition for a debian install is a small victory towards a free world, no matter how annoying that person may be. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- "If you can put it on a T-shirt, it's speech... To enjoin the T-shirts as a circumvention device is ludicrous." --Robin Gross, EFF staff attorney
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