According to David L. Zoll, > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 03:11:52AM +0200, Florent Rougon wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vikki Roemer) wrote: > > >> > http://etc.inittab.org/~agi/totalitarne.jpg > > >> > > >> Oh, no. This is really silly. The assholes who made this poster > > >> had better go to school and revise their history lessons. > > > > > > Why? I thought the joke was pretty funny, personally. *shrug* :) > > > > You can always argue about humour being perceived differently > > depending on the people, but that one is a bit too "stretched" for > > me (sorry for my English). Won't debate it any longer. > > Yeah, Windows, while annoying and buggy, didn't start assuming serious > centralized dictatorial control over people until XP, which was > released in 2001, not 1998. ;-)
Well, the inability to buy a computer w/o Windows installed started years before, and Windows would sabotage you if it detected DR-DOS instead of MS-DOS as far back as the Windows-on-DOS days (3.x). The "you must run our browser" and "you must run our media app" thing was certainly part of the W98 era, if not already in W95. > But seriously, yes, we all know that Windows attempts at control is > not in the same league as Stalin's (Moskwa '24) or Hitler's (Berlin > '33), ... True, they have not actually killed dissidents ( as far as I know. ;-) ) > ... but considering the sticker is in Polish I think they of all > people have a right to poke fun at it, and us to appreciate their wit. > Poland has been treated terribly by all three. Amen to that.
