>Choice is Good. Choice is Confusing. Both are True. Choice is being oversold. The choices are:
1 MS operating system that is somewhat expensive, somewhat buggy, very insecure, and preloaded with lots of applications that I don't want or need 1 MS operating system that is ridiculously overpriced, very buggy, quite insecure, and preloaded with lots of applications that I don't want or need 1 Apple operating system that is higly reliable, pretty easy to use, excessively proprietary and includes hardware and therefore ridiculously overpriced, and, I believe, also comes preloaded with a lot of extra stuff A whole bunch of Linux systems that are free or mostly free, very reliable, very secure, relatively difficult to use, and while preloaded with (sometimes) hundreds of applications that I don't want or need, won't run many mission-critical programs that I need. I still don't have the choice I want, which is: An inexpensive operating system that is extremely reliable, extremely secure, extremely easy to set up and use, does not come with any application software pre-loaded, and will run anything I need to run on it (within reason) Until I'm able to choose the option that I genuinely want, instead of being forced to choose among options that are all more or less bad, I won't consider myself as having a real choice. Ken Dibble www.stic-cil.org _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
