Ray_Net wrote: >Who is paying you to stress people using linux ? > It's called "sharing". As the user of a Free Software online suite, you should be familiar with the concept.
People who mention a 12-year-old M$ OS (which is always running as root) often have experienced being pwned by a drive-by infection or borking their OS by deleting system files. There are numerous Free Software distros which will work on gear of that vintage and which don't have those problems. People who run those very old M$ OSes on very old boxes are also finding that the brand new peripherals they can buy don't have Win98 device drivers. Linux, OTOH, has the best hardware support of *ANY* OS. Windoze also continues to use the fragile, cumbersome Windoze Registry. Linux doesn't have that either. Windoze has always had Windoze Product Keys; the latest M$ OSes now have Windoze Product Activation and Windoze Genuine DISadvantage (aka remote kill switches controlled by M$). Linux doesn't have ANY of that nonsense. Many people think their ONLY choice is to buy new gear and get a new M$ OS. Largely because of M$'s illegal anti-competitive activities, may folks are not even *aware* that they have OTHER options. Linux is a solution that is available at zero cost --without the M$ gotchas. It works on old gear and you *don't* have to install it to try it. (Linux will **run** from the plastic disk.) Many have found Linux to be a way to give new life to old gear. Others cast off their old boxes (which are then picked up for a song--or even for free-- by Linux guys who restore their usefulness for $0). http://google.com/search?q=Helios-Project+Ken-Starks The point is that folks have choices. The fact that there are zero-cost solutions to problems is also appealing to some. ...and, again, the openness of Free Software is another factor that may be appealing. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
