Max Battcher wrote: > > Every feature that Microsoft has "given away" for free has been > things that should be included in an Operating System. Do you want > to be *required* to pay a third party to listen to music? Do you > want to be *required* to pay a third party to use something as > integral to the network experience as a web browser? Do you want to > be *required* to pay a third party to use something as integral to > the health of your PC as an anti-virus program? > I agree that any OS should include those things. But Micro$oft is Evil not for including them, but for _not_ including other basic things that any decent OS should include, like _any_ programming language support (C, C++, or even b*sic), any reasonable text editor, any reasonable command language, etc.
And even the things M$ include are crappy. For example, their music player does not play .ogg files [which are similar to .mp3, but without the legalese evilness of .mp3]. > (The only real solution to the "Microsoft Problem" would be to > institutionalize/nationalize the Operating System. Some States and > Countries are already working on this, in fact, at least for > government work.) > Any country whose rulers aren´t in the payroll of M$ are changing to Free Software OSes. It´s high treason that governments write secret documents using a product that is owned by a foreign country. Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
