not only in yurkey my friend , not only there :) !!! swiss aren't the legalest too ... and you can install every version of XP you want , there are thousands of good tools out there , to keep your XP in your box and don't let it send anything out you don't want to be sent ... !
at least i hate m$ too , but i try to help my friends which aren't that linuxfriendly as i am to get 'free copies' , a broadbandconnection an edonkey and irc does the rest ... keep the net free !!! Am Don, 2002-05-02 um 18.33 schrieb Lyvim Xaphir: > On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 05:57, Robin Turner wrote: > > > Here in Turkey you normally get a computer installed with a pirate copy of > > Windows! > > > > Sir Robin > > > Here in the US, there's a version of XP running around that has all M& > internet contact ability ripped out of the core. It installs without > contacting M$, and does not do the customary updating after the XP > installation is complete. In fact, this version supposedly never > contacts M$ EVER. > > I've had it offered to me by some "insiders"; but since I have converted > completely to Linux (Mandrake) I declined. Anything that smacks of M$ > these days is completely repulsive. Which I have a little different > perspective on that these days than most, since I and some of my friends > been involved in the computer industry from the Dos-only days. > Unfortunately I've grokked the M$ entity very thoroughly; therefore my > disgust is complete and total. > > As a matter of fact, a friend was happily talking to me last night about > the latest virus software, and some of the latest wiz-bang winblows > hole-fixer software, and some of the problems they had circumvented > surrounding Outlook. I hate to admit it, but I found my eyes glazing > over as I was totally disinterested. From a Mandrake standpoint, it's > like peering through a looking glass into another world, where the > computer users there are enslaved and suffering, and yet don't see the > yokes on their backs. It's gotten to be very surreal. > > LX > > -- > °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° > Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 > Enlightenment 0.16.5 Evolution 1.02 > Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ > °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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