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A plea for relief from Microsoft's escalating anti-competitive tactics.
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| For years the Microsoft corporation has
| earned around 70% to 80% net profit from
| sales of its operating systems and
| application software. Only in areas like
| Thailand where Linux on the desktop has
| just begun to gain a foothold has Microsoft
| stated that it will release versions of its
| operating system platform and application
| software at a lower price to Original
| Equipment Manufactures (OEMs) and retail
| consumers than is available in the rest of
| the modern world. Consumers benefit where
| real competition exists.
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http://itheresies.blogspot.com/2004_03_01_archive.html
An Easy and Inexpensive Quad-Core System for Debian or Ubuntu GNU/Linux
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| The quad core processor especially makes a
| difference for GNU/Linux users because most
| of the time we are running a lot of
| separate processes. These can be shared
| over the available processors, achieving a
| degree of parallelism. The most remarkable
| thing, though, is that the 3D graphics and
| sound software (often major headaches to
| configure) appear to work exactly as they
| should on this hardware.
|
| Everything clicks into place and works. The
| worst problem so far has been a few lock-
| ups of the X windows system which might be
| due to video driver issues (or it might
| just be a flaky hard drive â the one weâre
| using is pretty old. Weâre eventually going
| to replace that).
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/easy_and_inexpensive_quad_core_system_debian_or_ubuntu_gnu_linux_0
Recent:
Does the Windows ballot screen for choosing a browser represent meaningful progress in Europe?
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| Thanks to the European Commission's
| antitrust like activities, European
| citizens will soon be presented with a
| ballot choice between twelve browsers when
| first using a newly purchased computer
| preloaded with the Microsoft Windows
| operating system.
|
| But is this really progress? It's not much
| of a choice when you have to give up your
| freedom first in order to select a browser
| -- a few of which might be free software.
| Why not give citizens the option of
| purchasing the computer with a free
| software operating system like GNU/Linux,
| or with no operating system at all? The
| best way to fight monopoly isn't to give
| more choices after the most basic premise
| of the monopoly has already been agreed to
| -- it's to let people opt out of the
| monopoly from the beginning.
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http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/ballot-screens
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