Re: sad but true, Linux sucks, a bit

[Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net>]

On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 10:26 +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
> In the long term  the support he gets from XP  could become worse than
> the support supplied by GNU/Linux. It does not seem wise to me.

There are some cracked XP and 98 se versions out there, that are as good
as FreeBSD and Linux for many usages, it's also possible to tune a legal
XP and 98 se to be good for many usages.

The advantage of Windows over Debian is hardware support and that more
people get payed for writing software for exotic usages, such as audio
and video editing.

_But_ IMO it's important to share knowledge. One of the things a
computer and networks are good for, is sharing knowledge and sharing
news from different points of view.

1. Open source is needed. IOW I won't use Microsoft and Apple.
2. I e.g. want to read the news from Israel and Palestine, of the USA
   and the Iran. Could be done with MS and Apple, but in some countries
   we need security ... did I wrote some? ... in all countries we need
   security when doing this, so FLOSS is the better way to go, since
   there are likely less backdoors for the bad guys, if any.

Etc. pp.