Amiga or die doug wrote:
>Careful, I can see this forming into a flame war! (Mine is bigger than yours >scenario....) > > Really, once you wean off the Redmond product, it dosen't matter if its Linux >or Mac. The only reason why I probably would not buy a Mac is historical: I >used to hate the computer telling me I could not have my disc back: then >fighting it with a paperclip! > regards Doug > >On Wednesday 09 May 2007 05:12:56 am Keith Addison wrote: > > >>>All of it. Like Joseph Jenkins's book, with Linux, you can either do it >>>yourself for free, or buy a DVD and support. >>>I personally like Macs, though I have to say Mr. Jobs has turned out to >>>have feet of clay... >>> >>> >>Hasn't he. Quite apart from the environmental issues, and the human >>rights issues, quite a lot of long-time Mac users don't think too >>highly of Apple these days, but the machines and OS are streets ahead >>of anything else nonetheless. Including Linux. >> >>This is quite an interesting read: >> >>http://viewfromthemountain.typepad.com/applepeels/2007/04/the_real_apple_.h >>tml Applepeels: >>April 25, 2007 >>The real Apple environment >> >>Jobs's "Greener Apple" message: >>http://www.apple.com/hotnews/agreenerapple/ >> >>And, previously, to his credit, this: >> >>http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/ >>Thoughts on Music >>Steve Jobs >>February 6, 2007 >> >>Still can't see why I'd want to "Go Linux", but never mind. >> >>Keith >> >> >> >>>Keith Addison wrote: >>> >>> >>>>>Go Linux >>>>> >>>>> >>>>Why would I want to do that? That's for Windozers when they wake up, >>>>not for Mac users when they fall asleep. >>>> >>>>(How much of that message did you actually read?) >>>> >>>>Keith >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>Keith Addison wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>>BEFORE he was extradited to the United States, Hew Griffiths, from >>>>>>>Berkeley Vale in NSW, had never even set foot in America. But he had >>>>>>>pirated software produced by American companies. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Now, having been given up to the US by former justice minister Chris >>>>>>>Ellison, Griffiths, 44, is in a Virginia cell, facing up to 10 years >>>>>>>in an American prison after a guilty plea late last month. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/05/06/1178390140855.html >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>I guess by now we've all seen those heart-rending pictures of poor >>>>>>old Bill Gates sitting at the street corner in New York with his hat >>>>>>out on the pavement, poor feller, driven to pennilessness by >>>>>>dastardly software pirates. It's said 70 percent of all the software >>>>>>in use worldwide is pirated - but for these filthy criminals Bill >>>>>>could have had that money, instead of his paltry $20 billion, and he >>>>>>wouldn't be in this sad state that he's in now. Disgraceful - where's >>>>>>the law when you need it??? >>>>>> >>>>>>This is a little difficult to explain though: >>>>>> >>>>>>http://www.josephjenkins.com/books_humanure.html >>>>>>Joseph Jenkins, Inc. - The Humanure Handbook >>>>>> >>>>>>This is where Joseph Jenkins sells hard-copies of his popular >>>>>>Humanure Handbook online at his web store. Scroll down a little and >>>>>>you'll find these links: >>>>>> >>>>>>$25.00 US -- BUY NOW or read the book free on the web. >>>>>> >>>>>>And: >>>>>> >>>>>>Buy a Book Now >>>>>>Read the Book for Free >>>>>>BUY IT ON AMAZON.COM >>>>>> >>>>>>Read the Book for Free: >>>>>>http://jenkinspublishing.com/humanure_contents.html >>>>>>Joseph Jenkins, Inc. - Humanure Handbook Table of Contents >>>>>> >>>>>>Full text, free online. >>>>>> >>>>>>He's been doing that for at least seven years now, and he's not the >>>>>>only one. Yet the book's sold 30,000 copies, not bad going. No way to >>>>>>know, but I'd bet that if he didn't give it away for nothing online >>>>>>he wouldn't have sold so many. >>>>>> >>>>>>This crap about software piracy always reminds me of a restaurant >>>>>>owner I used to know in Hong Kong. I dropped in at his place for some >>>>>>coffee one afternoon during an economic crisis, the property market >>>>>>had crashed, quite a few folks went out of business and so on. >>>>>>"How're you doing?" I asked him. >>>>>> >>>>>>"Terrible!" he answered. "I'm losing 20,000 dollars a day!" >>>>>>[USD1=HKD8] >>>>>> >>>>>>It turned out that before the crash he'd been making $60,000 a day, >>>>>>but now he was only making $40,000 a day. >>>>>> >>>>>>But I wonder if so many copies of Windoze etc would have been sold >>>>>>but for all the pirating? >>>>>> >>>>>>Best >>>>>> >>>>>>Keith >>>>>> >>>>>> >>_______________________________________________ >>Biofuel mailing list >>Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >>http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org >> >>Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >>http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html >> >>Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 >>messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ >> >> > > >_______________________________________________ >Biofuel mailing list >Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): >http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
