On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 10:28:01 +0000, DFS wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> | As I was flying about ten thousand miles east on my birthday and had to
>> | put my watch forward denying me seven hours of it, I decided to buy
>> | myself a present: a new laptop. As on this new toy I had no intention of
>> | ever running any Microsoft software, I asked for one without their
>> | operating system and for them not to charge me for it. They asked me
>> | what I was going to install, and I said "Ubuntu GNU/Linux". Then came
>> | the surprise: they supplied me with an off-the-shelf laptop with
>> | GNU/Linux preinstalled.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/1752
>
> You "conveniently" forgot the next couple sentences:
>
> "The distribution was Linpus, an eastern made one I believe, it was quite
> old and X was not installed and was not very useful. My suspicions are that
> they stock these laptops so they can supply to customers who install
> pirated versions of MS-Windows rather than expecting people will use
> GNU/Linux itself."
>
> ROFLMAO!!!!
>
> Windows: worth stealing
> Linux: pssst! Wipe it and install Windows.
>
> (btw, your selective quoting as per above is an example of why I have you
> plonked. Just now I'm using Knode 0.9.2 (full of bugs) on Slackware so I
> see your psychotic mound of NEWS posts. Why are half of them about
> Microsoft?)
Oh for fucks sake DooFuS.
Both you and your live in pool boy Flattie seem to have omitted this part
of the very paragraph that you quoted from: "My suspicions are that they
stock these laptops so they can supply to customers who install pirated
versions of MS-Windows rather than expecting people will use GNU/Linux
itself. Never the less, it was nice to see Linux pre-installed on a
computer from a high street shop. I later installed Ubuntu Dapper Drake
and it works fine (except for the internal modem, which I am sorting out)."
--
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Why? Cause he can, that's why.
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