What? If you don't want windows installed on your PC do you HAVE to pay?
Unbelievable! Well, maybe I'm not so informed, but in Italy you don't.
The problem is that you're forced to follow a MS standard. If you don't,
you'll find a lot of troubles for sharing or communicating your work and
documents ( I'm speaking about home-computing and little
activities)...Ms is a private close format, OpenOffice is a free open
format and I hope that in the future will rise a lot of other open
formats, maybe better then the others.
Bye
Emanuele
Andersen, Jan wrote:
Why should you pay to avoid something? Well, if you have read Terry Pratchett's
Discworld books, you'll know that there is something called the Thieves' Guild,
and that you pay an annual fee to avoid being robbed in the streets ;-)
/jan
-----Original Message-----
From: Johnny Andersson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thu 07-Sep-06 08:20
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [users] Long live Bill Gates!.?
One thing that is frustrating, at least for me, is that when I buy a new PC
I have to pay more for a PC without an operating system than for a PC with
Windows included. I am not sure that's the fact all over the world, but it
is at least here in my "odd" country. So it feels like if I want a new PC
with Linux, at least I either have to pay for:
1. Windows + PC
or
2. PC + "avoid Windows fee"
where 2 is more expensive than 1...
Doesn't sound fair to me. Why should I pay for avoiding something?
Maybe this is not 100% true, but it least it feels like it is.
Johnny
P.S. I just remembered a funny thing I often read in the local Dell ads in
the papers here. Translated to English it reads something like this:
"Dell recommends Windows XP Professional Edition"
Then I take a look at the different PC's they sell and ALL of them comes
with Windows XP Home Edition... =) So they obviously want you to buy their
computers with XP Home and then buy an upgrade to XP Pro..? Yeah, right...
D.S.
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