In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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wrote
on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 21:22:01 +0100
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> __/ [ John Bailo ] on Monday 26 June 2006 21:20 \__
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>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>> | It seems that with Bill Gates stepping down from day-to-day operations
>>> | and Microsoft evangelist Robert Scoble moving on completely, it does
>>> | certainly feel like the beginning of the end.
>>
>> Who cares.
>>
>> Vista can be elephant's vomit.
>>
>> It's not like anyone stopped buying Windows XP and 2003 server?!
>
> Why buy them when you can pwn them? *wink*
>
Now now, let's not do anything patently illegal here.
Everyone should own a legal copy of Microsoft Windows(tm)
per machine -- if that machine runs Windows at all.
Personally, I have at least four machines where the license is
invalidated or irrelevant.
[1] This one machine basically blew a something software
wise and couldn't handle $EMPLOYER's antivirus anymore
for some extremely strange and unfathomable reason.
After sitting powered off for a month and a half, I wiped
it and put Linux thereon, though with a sad grimace because
there was also quite a bit of data I lost as well...
though nothing extremely critical. It's been running
rather nicely ever since, although it could use more than
256MB RAM -- but that's because I'm running PostgreSQL
and JBoss on it... :-)
[2] Four machines that I bought were under the stipulation
that I put something else on them. I've since stripped
stuff from two of them (pentium 266's -- oh yeah, there's
a powerful box nowadays!), and the other two I'm using
(though I haven't powered the one on in awhile; he might
need rebuilding).
[3] One machine (my Athlon) the shop offered to give me
$25 and wipe off Windows 98. I took 'em up on it. Sadly,
my Kayak didn't get the same treatment. *scratches head*.
Oh well; the Kayak does well enough as a dual-boot and I
do have a couple of Windows games I play on a very rare
occasion.
I could thumb through my graveyard but I've done my part
to finance Steve Ballmer's company. :-)
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Windows Vista. Because it's time to refresh your hardware. Trust us.
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