[opensuse] Re: legalities

2007-09-30 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Richard Creighton wrote: >>> Actually, M$ have recently announced that they are extending support for >>> XP, for some unknown reason people are not buying as many Vista copies >>> as M$ expected :-) >>> >> Few hundreds reasons per product. >> Count is mostly 2 (Vista & MS Office) which comes

[opensuse] Re: legalities

2007-09-30 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Per Jessen wrote: > Richard Creighton wrote: > >> I cranked up 10.2 on a >> 486DX-2 the other day just to see it run...slow, but it ran :) > > How exactly did you manage that? Have you got a 486-version of 10.2? > > I've got a 486DX2 machine running as firewall/gateway, but it's stuck on > Su

Re: [opensuse] Re: legalities

2007-09-30 Thread James Knott
Eberhard Roloff wrote: > I fully aggree. > > But, as sad as it is, as a matter of fact, you cannot buy a new computer > without vista anymore. There are exceptions and there are business > machines that you still can order with XP, but in general, the new PC > market "is vista". > > In consequence

Re: [opensuse] Re: legalities

2007-09-30 Thread Jerry Houston
James Knott wrote: > Actually, there are many vendors who will sell without Windows or with > Linux installed. For example, there's one company, located near my > home, that sells computers loaded with Linux or no OS, for less than the > same system with Windows. Indeed. Since we're "Microsoft G

Re: [opensuse] Re: legalities

2007-09-30 Thread Richard Creighton
Eberhard Roloff wrote: > Per Jessen wrote: > >> Richard Creighton wrote: >> >> >>> I cranked up 10.2 on a >>> 486DX-2 the other day just to see it run...slow, but it ran :) >>> >> How exactly did you manage that? Have you got a 486-version of 10.2? >> >> I've got a 486DX2 machine