Justin Findlay wrote on Tuesday, May 16, 2006 4:03 PM:

> On 5/16/06, Grant Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 
>> I've always found it somewhat humorous that people buy Apple laptops
>> purely to run Linux.  Buying an Apple machine purely to run Linux is
>> like buying a Maserati and putting in a home-built block V8, or
>> ripping
> 
> Except that my home-built engine block consists of parts that I can
> repair myself.  Parts that thousands of other people use and fix
> themselves, whereas  the original engine has some parts welded
> together so that you can never know how they work and if they break
> you have to get a new engine.    

Continuing the analogy.  Imagine if you had to pay for a new copy of windows
every time you broke the one you had....

> 
> 
> Justin
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