Michael Chaney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 12:10:46AM +0800, Jasper Jugan wrote: >> well more computer users = more people they can sell their products >> too.. if the teachers realize use of computers... they will patronize >> the products sold by those member of BSA... > > Wrong. Most people don't know the cost of Windows since it's rolled > into the total cost of a system. When people have to buy it separately, > well, let's say that they rarely buy it from Microsoft. >
Indeed. > Microsoft had a silly page on their site for sometime that warned users > to not buy a naked pc. Now I see that they have an entry in their > "dictionary" which correctly observes that many people buy them to put > Linux on. > > Anyway, no, Microsoft and the BSA are against this. Expect to hear from > them. > Of course they are. Anything that is against freedom and pulling down the curtain *is* certainly going to get the attention of those aforementioned. Besides, here comes another cash cow wating to be milked, by *both* M$ and the government. > You folks (and I mean all of you) need to be contacting Arroyo's office > NOW to get Linux put on these pc's. Microsoft will fight you, and they > will fight dirty. Trust me, they fight dirty here. They have many, > many more avenues of dirtiness in the Philippines. > Wrong. The Madame maybe the top dog, but her barks are small. And M$ *will* certainly win the bid, given that GMA's analysts/advisers/makeup-artists will see that every good kid here knows pirate Windows and loves to play Ragnarok. Blame Level-Up for *not* doing a Linux game client and forcing us to play under Wine/Cedega... In God I trust, not in bureaucracies. Cheers, Zakame -- |=-------------ZAK B. ELEP (Registered Linux User #327585)-------------=| || Web: http://zakame.spunge.org GPG ID: 0xFA53851D || || http://zakame.homelinux.org ICQ UIN: 33236644 || || Location: Daet, Camarines Norte Running Linux 2.6 || |=----------1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D----------=| Debian - When you've got better things to do than to fix a borken system
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