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On Fri, 18 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> yes indeed, with DOS they mean MS-DOS, and it also sounds strange if
> somebody with a 286 or 386 should switch over on linux. but you know,
> dear albert, i think using linux is more than only a choice to use a
> better OS. why not use macOS, or os/2 or whatever. of course, linux
> is free of charge if you want, and it has a sympathic penguin
> as mascotte. but i think that for many people it is in first instance
> a political choice. political in the way that many people are getting
> sick of microsoft-dollars, and getting sick of billgates megalomania.
this is 70% of the reason that i switched to the linux operating system...
see, i'm 16, and i couldn't afford any other type of computer or os at
that time, yet i was getting sick of the unreliability of windows, and i
was totally mad at microsoft's business practices. this was before i knew
of linux, or open source. in my search to find a suitable os, someone
told me about linux. well, i did some searching on the internet, found
it, and started using it. now i've learned many things: things about
open source, and so forth... in the last two years, my entire mindset on
the computer world has changed.
personally, i won't use commercial products anymore, because i'm used to
the freedoms of the open source world :-)
> and even if they would switch to apple, there you still are
> confrontated with a company wich asks lots of money for their written
> stuff and are sitting like a chicken on its golden eggs on their
> source, and barricades the road for many enthousiastic programmers,
> who only want to write good programms that anyone can use, from
> low-budgetted student and lonely mother to a company of million
> dollarz! linux is a kind of feeling! actually it is a revolution!
> it changes the mentality about what software is.
>
exactly... that is why i love linux. linux liberates your computer in
sense, becuase all of a sudden, it's legal to copy and give your os
away... or sell it, or whatever. there is no pirating of gpl'd software
like linux. it's wonderful. :)
> excuse my broken english
> i wanna greet you
>
your english is just fine... at least, i can understand it :)
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