Peter KÃhlmann <peter.koehlmann@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Hans Schneider wrote:
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Thursday 01 February 2007 07:23 \__
>>>
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>>>> Tim Fairchild <usenet@xxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>> [H]omer wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>>>> Vista gets slated - by the Greens
>>>>>
>>>>> Save the planet and use linux. It will run on lower power PC's :)
>>>>>
>>>>> My wife is very happy with her new Mandriva 2007 on a pentium 3.
>>>>>
>>>>> WooHoo, not enough ram or video card to run Vista...
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The environmental impact of proprietary software has yet to be fully
>>>> explored, but it's most certainly enormous. Possibly as great as that
>>>> of cars, if you consider the numbers involved.
>>>
>>> This applies to any industry where forced upgrades are needed. However,
>>> you don't see cars going off the road because of minimal speed limits on
>>> the highways.
>>
>> What are you talking over here? I do not understand what you are
>> saying. How has proprietary SW hurted the environment more than Linux?
>> Surely all these free CDs for Linux things are not very much green
>> neither?
>
> So all those shiny new machines needed to run Vista come out of thin air.
> Those high powered graphics adapters required to run Aero suck their power
> from lightning
And the machines Linux can be running on for DB servers and games? You
are not surely serious about this bullshit? God. I think you are being
adament that Windows is to blame. What is the energy wasted making 350
distros then if not wasteful for choice? Crazy talking.
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