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What Kind of Sense Does Phone-Only XP Activation Make? | 49 comments (49 topical) | Post A Comment
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by Anonymous User on Sat Feb 26, 2005 at 06:48:20 AM PDT

If you don't own the company, you don't get to choose the OS. Especially with some specialty software that only runs under Windows. Grow up, the author isn't stupid, he just doesn't get a choice. Why throw out all his software to replace it with Linux/Unix and then HOPE there are drivers for his equipment?

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just moved to unix[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#45)
by Anonymous User on Thu Jun 22, 2006 at 01:21:37 PM PDT

I dissagree, one always has a choice, ALWAYS. I just recently realised that I was being a lazy cry baby, so I am going duel boot ( win. 2000 and Debian ) and will begin sorting out what I want to move from win. to Debian. Once that is sorted out I`ll deleat win. forever. So it takes more work, so I actually have to do something. Guess what, now I dont have a "microsoft computer" I have a computer. What I mean by that is exactly what the original thread said. Now I dont have a toy, I have a real computer, now I am not supporting a company that puts out junk and seeks only to make money with no care for customer satisfaction. TO THE ORIGINAL THREAD: harshly put but I believe you are correct overall, thanks. side note: I no longer have an x-box, and never will again... guess who makes it. I feel that supporting a company ( or anything for that matter) that isn`t interested in your happyness is stupid and wrong... more importently, I dont have to deal with microsoft lameness ever again unless I CHOOSE to, and I wont.

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