It is great to see some green around a signed message :-) Yep, i will second that, it would be the least of my concerns to be able to put windows back on the system. Even if the legitimate reasoning of what if i sell the puter arises ... in that case, i would want to sell it to a Linux user first and foremost. As for the second part, i would summarize using the expression of "i would rather pay ...." than be free. In my opinion, "i would rather find a free alternative than go for a proprietary, closed source solution " and i would go the kilometre to create that free and open alternative. And yes, we are metric :-)
Cheers Szemir On August 28, 2006 13:39, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Monday 28 August 2006 13:05, Nick Wiltshire wrote: > > I say down with burning your own restore discs. > > i agree. however, i deal with it slightly differently: forget the restore > partition, because windows certainly isn't touching the machine again. > > it always surprises me how much pain people are willing to go through to > maintain the option of running a proprietary OS. people (as can be seen in > this thread) will complain about linux and hardware support and all the > hoops they have to jump through but will quite willingly jump through hoops > which i find even more audacious for windows with nary but a "annoying, but > oh well" spilling from their lips. > > meh. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
