Well, as they say, vote with your feet. I'm replacing my old HP laptop with a Mac which I'm setting up to triple boot Linux, OSX, and WinXP. Plus I'm putting on Parallels so I can do virtual installs of WinSever2K and 2003.
I'm only doing the XP partition because I do most of my work with Windoze centric businesses who are already screaming about the cost of Vista. I've got a LiveUSB versions of Ubuntu and DSL that I've been showing business people for the last couple of weeks. When I tell them that if they want to save a few bucks on hardware and the OS upgrade from the Home version, just buy a bit more memory and a new HD, then install Linux. ~$200 or less and you have at least two more years of life left in the old machine. So far only one person is seriously trying this approach, but when I give the figures of the difference in cost, jaws drop. I've done this for two friends and they love it. If the PS is dirty I tell them to blow it out or buy a new one for ~$50. Best, Allen Saqib Ali wrote: > An interesting and excellent essay by Bruce Schneier: > http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/02/drm_in_windows.html > >>From the essay: > "Windows Vista includes an array of "features" that you don't want. > These features will make your computer less reliable and less secure. > They'll make your computer less stable and run slower. They will cause > technical support problems. They may even require you to upgrade some > of your peripheral hardware and existing software. And these features > won't do anything useful. In fact, they're working against you......" > > "Unfortunately, we users are caught in the crossfire. We are not only > stuck with DRM systems that interfere with our legitimate fair-use > rights for the content we buy, we're stuck with DRM systems that > interfere with all of our computer use--even the uses that have > nothing to do with copyright." > > "I don't see the market righting this wrong, because Microsoft's > monopoly position gives it much more power than we consumers can hope > to have...." > _______________________________________________ > FDE mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde > _______________________________________________ FDE mailing list [email protected] http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde
