Re: [users] Re: [OT] Attn: HP Pavilion 9680C (US) owners
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 06:34:06PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
| also sprach D-Man (on Tue, 03 Jul 2001 12:25:35PM -0400):
| > We certainly can do something : use (and develop) Debian while
| > boycotting proprietary hardware. Microsoft can't charge us rent for
| > using Debian :-).
|
| word up. but i am less concerned about us since we already do good. i
| am concerned about the daddies that go out to buy all this fancy
| multimedia bullshit and all the poor people that stock up their
| systems to the brim just to satisfy the latest micro$oft disease -
| because micro$oft is so full of lies of how you *need* that stuff. who
| *needs* windoze ME??? who *needs* winblows XP??? who *needs*
| downloadable
| play-only-on-your-computer-until-the-next-reinstall-paid-for audio
| files??? who *needs* to use hotmail??? who *needs* to sell their soul
| to satan by signing up for passport.com???
Well, business is (almost entirely) built on _wants_ not _needs_. Who
_needs_ a computer in the first place, after all? All we _need_ is
water, food, shelter, clothes, and companionship :-).
-D
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