Well, Windows is back on the disk.

[Marc Zuverink]

Richard Colbert Jr wrote:

>Where in the heck did you get the idea that Windows was free with most
>computers? Windows is not free, it has never been free and it will never be
>free. It may be INCLUDED with most computers, but I promise you pay for it.
>The average price of a computer running WindowsXP Home is $89 higher than
>the same exact computer running any flavor of *nix. The average price of a
>computer running WindowsXP Professional is $179 higher than the same exact
>computer running any flavor of *nix. Now how is that freaking free?
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>Richard Colbert
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
>[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Dick Davies
>Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 6:28 PM
>To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions
>Subject: Re: Well, Windows is back on the disk.
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>On 18/01/06, Lionel <lionelv at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Dick Davies wrote:
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>>>On 17/01/06, Lionel <lionelv at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> You are
>>>>getting it for FREE. You are getting it for FREE. A lot of people put a
>>>>lot of hard work into Linux and get nothing in return, consider
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>yourself
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>>>>lucky that people are out there trying.
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>>>So because it's free, you're aren't allowed to complain about it?
>>>That' s a very silly argument. Try drinking sewer water, but please
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>don't
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>>>complain about the typhoid.
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>>That's a very silly statement because using linux is a choice as is
>>drinking sewer water.
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>The idea that just because something is free you shouldn't be allowed
>to complain about its quality is nonsense. Windows comes free with a
>lot of PCs but that doesnt' mean it's beyond reproach. I get free junk mail.
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And thats a fact.  I recently purchased a HP Pavilion for my daughter
and requested no OS and they substracted $199.95 from the advertised
price.  Not bad when the PC was listed in the newspaper for $499.99.


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~marc  <marc_zuverink at sbcglobal.net>

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
  - Edward Abbey