On Sun, 20 May 2001, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>>Yes, for me, and for you that is correct. Other poorer countries
>>in the world do not have such luxuries. Should we alienate third
>>world countries from using Linux because they can't afford a hard
>>disk or CDROM that is less than 2 years old? There is no
>>good technical reason to stop supporting old hardware. Separate
>>the drivers if need be, but don't get rid of support for old
>>stuff "just because".
>
>So you are arguing with Mr. Bush: We are not interested in reducing CO2
>
>In a poor country, there should be even a higher demand to reduce costs.
>If the price you have to pay for one single year for electricity to run
>some disks (**) is more than the price you have to pay for a new disk,
>then it's time to buy new equipment. After one year it reduces your
>costs.
While I agree with that logic completely Jeorg, there are people
out there that have this hardware, and want to use it. It is
there choice wether they pay for electricity for the thing or
not really. Also, some people don't pay for electricity at all,
such as an apartment that comes with electricity included. I
really don't think this has much to do with the decision to
support old hardware at all, even though your statement above is
completely logical.
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others recommendations on what to buy. Cost isn't as important as is
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