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Re: Windows 7: back to the 1990's


After takin' a swig o' grog, Megabyte belched out
  this bit o' wisdom:

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> ____/ Homer on Monday 12 January 2009 14:30 : \____
>> 
>>> Oh well, it seems I really was wrong about "Megabyte" after all. He /is/
>>> just a Microsoft shill.
>> 
>> I've seen similar comments in blogs (including mine) that criticise Windows 7.
>> It's just a spew of lots of praises for Vista7. Maybe they get 65c per
>> comment, a la Belkin.
>> 
>> It was the same with Vista (MEII).
>> 
> Nope, the comments are much like FOSS, free as in freedom! ;-)  There 
> are a lot of benefits to Linux but that doesn't mean everyone has to 
> hate Windows in order to like Linux.  Windows 7 is a marked improvement 
> over Vista so why not offer praise where it is deserved?

Because, for one thing, it is still Windows, a proprietary platform
implemented by but a single vendor, for the single vendor, and of the single
vendor.

Praising a better version of Windows is like praising a better jail.

-- 
The hardest thing is to disguise your feelings when you put a lot of
relatives on the train for home.

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