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Re: Open Source & Linux has no place in OLPC

  • Subject: Re: Open Source & Linux has no place in OLPC
  • From: "amicus_curious" <ACDC@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:51:47 -0400
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Usenet Monster - http://www.usenetmonster.com
  • References: <5747gdF2bpcn9U1@mid.individual.net> <460ceac4$0$16345$88260bb3@free.teranews.com> <2012038.qa2gPAZ08v@schestowitz.com>
  • Xref: ellandroad.demon.co.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:509776
"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:2012038.qa2gPAZ08v@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

>
> I don't think Apple lets people become  aware of the fact that something
> other with Windows competes with Mac OS.

Well, they are in good company.  99.44% of the world's desktop PC users are 
unaware as well.

> On Monday he wrote about operating systems for rent, mentioning this as a
> /future possibility/ and failing to realise that renting is precisely how
> Windows and OS X work (with 'pay as you go' as a patented technology
> currently in testing). You pay for a licence to use something before being
> forced to pay additional fees to upgrade (or 'upgrade' in the case of
> Vista), sometimes even to patch.
>
Hardly "forced" at all.  If you don't want the improvements, you just keep 
what you have.  It's as simple as that.  You might consider that your case 
is pretty weak if you have to misrepresent the other side's POV.  Do they 
teach that technique where you went?




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