I guess it is partially about money for me. A few years ago when I knew almost nothing about computers I was more or less forced to buy a computer with windoze 98 installed, to the best of my knowledge that was the only thing available on any name brand computer and I sure did not know enough at the time to build my own at that time. I latter found out about the way that microsoft strong arms computer manufactures into building and selling only machines with windoze products installed. I also found out a hell of a lot of other things about how microsoft does business and none were to my liking. Due to the fact that my first machine came with windoze 98 installed I have a windoze 98 disk that I could use on any of the machines that I own now. It would be a bit unstable, need to waste resources on virus protection and have a number of security holes ECT but it would be capable of doing anything that I wanted to do. However I would much rather spend a few dollars on a operating system done by a honest decent company than continue to use stuff done by a dishonest corrupt monolopy. I was involved in cooperate America long enough to understand microsoft style business practices and I prefer not to support that sort of company in any way shape or form!!!
So yes it is about partly about money. I would rather spend a few dollars on mandrake, support a good company and have a bit of a new learning curve than to use windoze for free. On Sunday 30 March 2003 10:52 pm, Jason Greenwood wrote: > Just another reason to use Linux - you are not buying pirated software. =) > > robin.bcc wrote: > >> On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 10:45, Zariyan Zephyr wrote: > >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >>> Hash: SHA1 > >>> > >>> As a Linux newbie, I don't really understand why people in Europe and > >>> North America has chosen Linux for daily use. I think people in Europe > >>> and North America can afford Microsoft Windows and application > >>> softwares under Windows. It isn't about money, is it ?. > > > > It's certainly not about money for me - here in Turkey I could buy any > > version of Windows on the street for about $2. > > > > Sir Robin > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Marc KM5KW Powered by Mandrake Linux 9.0 and Kmail. This is a 100%Windows and microsoft free computer For a superior OS, virus and crash resistant go to http://www.mandrake.com
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