Re: [Trisquel-users] Microsoft trying to prevent Linux on ARM hardware

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Agreed. Case-in-point was this past Thursday at my "Authorized Mac Reseller"  
store on my campus. I cringed listening to a poor student salesman pitch why  
a student needed a $1300+ Facebook machine; the only reason why I didn't  
intervene was because I knew she needed the commission and I tend not to do  
such a thing to fellow sales people. There was, however, one gentleman who  
was eying a copy of Microsoft Office for Mac while standing at the checkout  
desk with me. I politely interjected (after hearing the ludicrous price  
Microsoft demanded users to pay) and discussed LibreOffice and the Four  
Freedoms. The man was so blown away he said he was seriously going back to  
his dorm room to look it up.

There are ways to make compelling cases for the Freedoms rather than the  
Functionalities; it's part of the fun of being a can-GNU kind of person.