On Jun 26, 3:07 pm, Homer <use...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Verily I say unto thee, that The Ghost In The Machine spake thusly:
>
> > Ah yes, you are accusing Roy of being a hypocrite. So be it.
>
> Using proprietary software is one thing. Mixing proprietary software
> with Free Software, thus exposing Free Software users to additional
> restrictions, is quite another. The two activities are quite
> antithetical, and doing the former, whilst advocating against the
> latter, is not at all hypocritical.
>
> Indeed it is not even hypocritical to /use/ proprietary software, whilst
> advocating the use of Free Software. I'm a heavy smoker, but I don't
> advocate it. The reason I smoke is addiction, not hypocrisy. I
> occasionally use Windows, but that is only because I am forced to by
> companies that refuse to release their software for GNU/Linux (e.g.
> firmware flashers), not because I /want/ to use it or because I /like/
> it. Indeed the only reason I even /have/ Windows at all is because the
> OEMs gave me no /choice/ when I bought my hardware, and I'm not going to
> throw away something I paid for, even if it is mostly useless - it is
> occasionally required, unfortunately.
If it is occasionally required then it looks like the OEM did you a
favor by somehow making you purchase a computer with Windows on it
(how they managed that, i'll never know). Otherwise you would have to
buy Windows separately anyway.
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