Well put. Now to spread the word :) >-----Original Message----- >From: Charlie M. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 7:47 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [newbie] More reasons to Hate M$hit. Creative too, which I'm >getting pretty p'ed off with... > >On Tuesday 24 September 2002 4:27 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: ><snip> > >I know it won't do anything except make me feel better. However this is a >copy >of an e-mail I sent to the AMD hardware support address >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >earlier today with the subject line: > >AMD, Microsoft, Palladium, and the future. > >[quote] >Since I have no idea to whom this should be directed I'll send it to the >generic hardware support address. > >I have been reading in the tech press for some time regarding AMD's plans >to >include support for Microsoft and their "Palladium" or "Trusted Computing" >initiative. > >I will state unequivocally that should this come to pass I will be a former >customer of yours; as I was once a customer of Intel's, Microsoft's, >Anti-Virus vendors (pick one), the music industry, the film industry, etc. > >I refuse to be bullied and indirectly accused of terrorism or thievery >because >I choose to play a compact disk or a DVD; that I purchased, on my computer. >I >refuse to allow Microsoft, the BSA, or any government agency, snoop through >my personal files just because I might have kept a copy of a song from one >of >those disks in a compressed format on one of my hard drives for >convenience. >Once I have paid my money to use someone's "Intellectual Property" for an >individual copy of the work I find it ludicrous that I must; in effect, >request permission every time I wish to peruse the movie, listen to the >recording, write a document, or boot the operating system of my choice on >hardware that I own. Microsoft's "Everlasting Usurious Lease Agreement" is >the primary reason I will never again load that corporation's software on a >machine that is under my control. > >Your bowing to them in order to gain some soi disant advantages will be the >reason I am no longer an AMD customer. It may be your undoing. Many of us >read 1984 (c) and remembered what we read. Anything that smacks of "Big >Brother" is so distasteful it's possible that it may become a "cause >celebre." Can you say "Boycott?" By every GNU/Linux user on the planet? > >Anything is possible. > >I know the thoughts a message such as this generate in the recipient's >mind; >he's one consumer, probably one of those "Cancerous" operating system >users/advocates, a hermit that is socially inept and reclusive, with no >friends or influence. Or possibly just a rabble rousing trouble maker. >Probably doesn't spend all that much on hardware anyway, right? > >Guess again; and I'll answer that with this question: > >How many of us are there? Can you afford to offend us all? > >Charlie Mahan >Edmonton Alberta Canada >September 24, 2002 >[\quote] > >I received an automated acknowledgement, I wonder if a human being will >read >it. Fire retardant suit applied. ;) >-- >Charlie >Edmonton,AB,Canada >Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org >I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob. > -- William F. Buckley >
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