That wasn't the point of my email...

I bought Windows 98 SE only three months ago, even though I have been using 
Mandrake for 6 months... I have nothing against buying Windows... I just mean 
that Red Hat would be giving a rebate to people who bought MS software, which 
is stupid. IMHO.

On Saturday 11 May 2002 06:51 pm, you wrote:
> D. Olson wrote:
> >On Saturday 11 May 2002 02:40 pm, you wrote:
> >>i _am_ going to pass judgement on the fact that while that rebate seems
> >>reasonable, why is it not extended to users of, say for example, win95 or
> >>win98?
> >
> >Because that would be rewarding those people who support Microsoft by
> > buying their software?
>
> Ummm soo sorry, but that conjecture seems a bit unreasonable.  Most
> people have 95 or 98 because they perceived at the time that they had no
> other choice or simply did not know any better.  Those who have it
> because they want to support Microsoft are unlikely to be buying _ANY_
> linux distro.
>
> Civileme

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