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Very sorry If that is way you took it, it wasn't meant that way. I was trying to say, if people buy their software, then they shouldn't complain as there are other OD's out there which are far superior to M$. Yes it is your right and I also believe M$ uses very unethical business practices. <br><br>When I have to boot win it amazes me that win takes 11/2 minutes or longer to boot and sometimes several minutes to shut down. Ubuntu on my Q6600 takes 9-14 sec to boot up and about the same time to shut down. I found under wine, many M$ utilities run on Ubuntu. One program I was really missing was Quicken. In fact 99 runs better under Linux than in win 7. I tried the various checkbook programs under Linux, but like quicken better.<br><br>Sorry for the misunderstanding.<br><br>I don't like Linux, <b>I LOVE it</b>!!!!! I did use <b>XENIX</b> in the early 1980s for about 4 months, command line. I suffered thru every version of DOS and windows M$ put out except NT 3+ and ME. Hated every one except NT 4.0 SP5. Stable as a rock<br><br><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."</font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">-- Albert Einstein</font><br><br><br><br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:51:39 -0700<br>From: scott@ponzo.net<br>To: talk@nblug.org<br>Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] #se7en -- http://windows7sins.org/<br><br>
On 08/28/2009 12:38 PM, Gil Seiler wrote:
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</style>Scott, in a free society, one has a right to use or not use a
program. I don't pay or use products which I don't like e.g Apple (had
a Mac), locked music cd's and only use windows cause open source
doesn't have a replacement for a couple of programs. I use Ubuntu 98%
of the time. If I could get the USB to work on visualbox, I would be
1000% happy.<br>
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If people complain and don't like windows, don't use or buy it!<br>
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I'm not sure where you are coming from.<br>
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Yes, I don't buy their OS, and I'm only "using" it in cases where their
DRM (itself unethical) infringes on _my_ right to not use their
software.<br>
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It is also "my right" to point to resources which contain facts that
support my position that MSFT does not act with acceptable business
ethics. Since this is one reason to drop #se7en and adopt Linux on the
desktop, I think it is highly on-topic for this mailing list.<br>
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Don't like it? It's "your right" to disagree, too...but please don't
imply that *I* somehow am infringing on people's rights.<br>
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BTW, how do you like Linux so far? :)<br>
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- Scott<br>
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