In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Homer
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wrote
on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:07:02 +0100
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> 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.
I am not sure DFS quite gets this point. ;-)
>
> 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.
Yeppers; Kayak got a dualboot precisely for this reason,
but the Athlon did not have a valid Windows license
when I got it (they gave me a credit, nice of them...but
apparently that was a short-lived program for some reason).
My current laptop is also a dualboot. Marginally useful,
but I don't think I've used it more than a handful of times
on my laptop, and I can't say I use it all that often on
my one work machine (also a dualboot; the other is not
a dualboot because Windows fritzed itself in a way that
disallowed installing some IT-mandated antivirus stuff --
so I had to slick it).
>
> The only "hypocrisy" here is a bunch of Windows fanboys spending so much
> of their time, and exerting so much effort, in a newsgroup dedicated to
> something they obviously hate venomously, instead of crooning about the
> wonders of Windows,
There are a lot of wonders of Windows -- one just kind of has to at
times. ;-) (Not that these "wonders" are selling points, unless one
is so perverse as to be absolutely nuts.)
> and fawning over their gangster idols, in a Windows
> newsgroup or forum - where they belong. If they love Windows so much,
> they why don't they just go away and use it, instead of infecting this
> group with their filth?
Obviously, because they're trying to neutralize a threat to their
worldview. Linux promises freedom.
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