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High Plains Thumper <hpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> Erik Funkenbusch on Tuesday:
>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Microsoft Is Shooting Itself In The Foot, Again
>>>>>
>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>| I think that Microsoft has grown arrogant and greedy
>>>>>| enough to ignore the fact that there are many PC users
>>>>>| that still run Windows 98 and Windows ME. With security
>>>>>| updates and patches ceasing to appear for the Windows
>>>>>| 9x clone the left-behind users might be compelled to
>>>>>| switch to Linux (in fact this very realization prompted
>>>>>| Microsoft to extend the support for Windows 98 and ME
>>>>>| from the original cut-off date of January 2004).
>>>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://techsearch.cmp.com/blog/archives/2006/07/microsoft_i
>>> s_sh.html?loc=software_and_web_development
>>>>
>>>> So, when was the last time a patch was released for Red
>>>> Hat 4? Suse 3? Mandrake 5?
>>>>
>>>> Windows 98 is 8 years old. No linux vendor is still
>>>> supporting systems they sold that long ago.
>>>
>>> Upgrades are free; requirement barriers are merely
>>> unchanged owing to modularity and customisation. Last
>>> followup, but it was so obvious, so it had to be stated.
>>
>> Upgrades are not necessarily free, but even if they are,
>> that's beside the point. If you bought your copy of Linux,
>> why wouldn't you buy another one?
>
> Your point is pointless.
>
I'm afraid that the points of proprietary code zealots usually are.
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