On Thu, 24 Apr 2014 18:31:32 +0200 Slavko <li...@slavino.sk> wrote:
> > Or need we (Linux users) consider all choices to be good due freedom > only? > OK, we're off topic, but maybe I can sneak in a point that doesn't often get mentioned, before the police turn up... There are many kinds of freedom. One of the freedoms that non-Windows people may not even be aware of having is that they own their computers. Nowhere is off-limits to them (as root), nobody runs daemons on their system without asking, no software supplier seems to feel that since you have bought his software, he part-owns your machine and can run anything he likes on it, contact any Internet sites he wants without asking, etc... Yes, the Windows ecosystem is like that. For professional reasons, I cannot avoid having a Windows laptop, and have replaced my eight-year-old XP machine with a wretched Windows 8 beast. After two months, I have established some measure of control over it, but I know I will never own it... -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140424194244.4c59e...@jretrading.com
