On 2008-09-11, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
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> ____/ Sinister Midget on Thursday 11 September 2008 12:15 : \____
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>> On 2008-09-11, Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
>>> With Windows, it's like Christmas!
>>
>> With every box equal to two lumps of coal.
>>
>> Plus you get to pay for it all yourself. Nothing is given as a gift,
>> although some claim you get discounts or "free" goodies when you
>> overpay for the items.
>>
>> Your "gift list" consists of one person: you. You really can't afford
>> to equip every person you know with a full office suite, anti-virus,
>> graphics packages that do some real graphics work (ergo, *not* Paint),
>> media burners and rippers, and all of the other things needed to make
>> the machine useful.
>>
>> Windows: The "Christmas? Bah! Humbug!" of the computing world.
>
> With Free software, you can duplicate your one gift (kind of like in Star Wars)
> and spread it all over town. You can even prepare your own 'spin'.
As I've done. Spread it around that is, not spin my own. But sometime I
might do that part, too.
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Exxon sponsored ecology videos, Kraft sponsored nutrition videos...
I'd be surprised if Microsoft isn't sponsoring technology classes.
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