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View Poll Results: Do you think making Linux and MS interactable (kinda) a good idea?

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  1. #211
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    Originally posted by Taris_Kah
    Pfff, they're more than just trying to dominate Hardware, they're trying to dominate the world!
    Yes old Billy Boy wanted to have is own consolation of LEO’s (low earth orbit satellites) and create his own bloody Internet!!

    I think the new George Orwell 1984 would have Bill as the world commissar AKA Big Brother!
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    I apollogize for not reading all of the posts in this thread but its basically the same ole stuff.So if this has been said already please bear with me.
    I too use Windows mostly because of my online gaming habit.(not a youngster here either...im 40)
    Windows is expensive and insecure.I dont really consider XP or 2000 to be unstable as i never have issues with either one , however 9x was a different animal.
    I would like to address the cost issue.
    If SCO has its way us Linux users could be taken to court over copyright infringement charges the same way that MS does to Warez Pirates.Or you can stay in SCO's good graces and buy an End User license for 190-750 bucks.
    Oh well,They always told me "free as in Freedom,not as in beer".

    To Hades with all of them.

    Good day.
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    Originally posted by carrja99
    That's not the issue. The issue is... do they have the right to virtually enter your home and remove warez from the pc? A person should have the expectation to privacy within thier own home, it is no different than police searching a person's home without a search warrant. It's not the fact that the person has something to hide, but it's the principle of the whole thing.
    Very well said and on that note why put your mail in a envelope or why use a pass word for your email or ….. "After all you have nothing to hide right?"
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    Lightbulb

    I think the whole "security" thing is just stupid. I personally have a theory that if microsoft and its associates get this thing started it will make alot of people move to linux or some other OS maybe freeBSD or whatever.

    This maybe something good for the OSS community if my theory is correct.

    Especially some of the people who know about different OSs and use Windows anyway who may or may not be more avid users of "questionable" software.
    Hey that's my horse

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    Well, this is an old thread. I have also just noticed that AlexPlank was banned (that last thred of his was a little disturbing). I was wondering where he went.

    It is like carjja99 posted. It is not a matter of what is on your PC, but a matter of privacy and personal rights. So say I rip an entire copy of my Don Henley album "actual miles". Now I ripped this before DMR went into effect and therefor it does not have any embeded DMR code. Now law clearly states that I am ENTITLED to making one backup for personal use. But of coarse, Billy just lost four games of solitair and has decided to do some HD browsing. Of coarse, he sees my "actual miles" album and sees that it is not DMR compliant - so off it goes! Now whoes wrong in this case? I personally have over 200 LP's backed up on MP3 (some of wich are pretty friggin expensive and impossible to find) and I would really "snap" if I came home from work one day and found my entire collection of _legally_aquired_ music deleted. I don't think many (if anyone) here knows what being in a prison is like. Want to know? They go into your room and take stuff that belongs to you. Stuff you legaly purchased. Because they don't THINK you should have it. They go into your lockers and take pictures they think should be "sensored" based on personal feelings. They take those family pictures and throw them in the trash. They pictures you DRAW and rip them up because they do not think you should have them. They say what you can and can not watch on TV (same as what you can and can not watch on you PC) based on someones personal bias or a regulation made by someone who has no experience with the subject at hand. They watch you when you shower, when you use the toilet, they listen to your calls, they have not only the ability, but the legal right to monitor *everything* you do.

    There are so many things people do on a daily basis that are taken for granted. The small, simple things. And most will never understand what the LUXURY of having these means until they loose it and really see the difference. Everything I mentioned in the above paragraph is based on my personal real life experience - not a speculation. And everything I stated is in reference to a certian implimentation of palladium. If paladium is taken seriously and put into wide spread use, it is only THEN that you will realise the privacy you have lost, and only THEN you ealise what it meant to have the LUXURY you have now. Otherwise, I (and many others) can speak against it until we are blue in the face, but it is like trying to tell me 5 years ago not to do what I did and what the results would be: I just would not listen. Even when told by others who KNEW. It is sad to see so many people have to learn their lessons the hard way.

    Yes there are BIG problems with piracy, child porn, and the such. But the REAL issue it that they are trying to solve the problem in the *wrong way*. I am a system builder, and I have special software and tools (supplied by microsoft, by the way) that would let me use unlimited copies of WinXP without activation and all that. But I don't go posting the stuff on warez sites, now do I? If we want to fight DMR, then WE are the only ones that can do it: STOP PIRATING SOFTWARE. It should not be someone elses job to stop us, but our own as grown adults who should know what is right and wrong.

    Then again, like everyone else always told me - " I guess I don't know what I'm talking about"

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    Originally posted by deanrantala
    If we want to fight DMR
    What's wrong with David? Why would we want to fight him?

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    Ehh... Ooopps.

    That does look a little bad, eh?

    <edit>

    To fight the evil and scheme known by key figures and high-level authorities as digital media rights

    </edit?

    Then again, the name IS a little coincidental, isn't it?

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    I also just noticed: those are my initials!

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    M$ vs Linux Round ?

    Well I look at it this way as a developer.

    How many 120K year + jobs are there developing
    applications in and for linux?

    So far I have found only one and I really didnt want to move to
    the artic for 3 months.

    So in the mean time I will develop apps for the M$ platform
    and convert my clients servers to Linux.

    That is if SCO will keep there hands where they belong.
    Where the he** is my stupid user stick?

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    lol.. cant do anything else than laughing at this thread..
    Well you see, the biggest reason for using windows is that not everyone is a computernerd and know everything about computers..
    in linux there are much more complicated things you can do and in windows you just open up a window and choose a game or a file to watch..

    and linux is actually kind of young compared to windows.. so they've developed userprograms and drivers for all the hardware that has been released..
    and then they make it better and better.. you got support on the most things of your windows stuff.. and by linux it's hard for a newb to use the system..

    So take it easy on the windows dudes..
    Linux is still developing into a more user-friendly OS..

    //A person who like both systems but use them for different purposes..
    one thing i got a problem with..
    Windows try to trash linux down.. talk about sucky corporationhip

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    Originally posted by iC3man
    lol.. cant do anything else than laughing at this thread..
    Well you see, the biggest reason for using windows is that not everyone is a computernerd and know everything about computers..
    in linux there are much more complicated things you can do and in windows you just open up a window and choose a game or a file to watch..

    and linux is actually kind of young compared to windows.. so they've developed userprograms and drivers for all the hardware that has been released..
    and then they make it better and better.. you got support on the most things of your windows stuff.. and by linux it's hard for a newb to use the system..

    So take it easy on the windows dudes..
    Linux is still developing into a more user-friendly OS..

    //A person who like both systems but use them for different purposes..
    In 1991, Linus Benedict Torvalds was a second year student of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki and a self-taught hacker. The 21 year old sandy haired soft-spoken Finn loved to tinker with the power of the computers and the limits to which the system can be pushed. But all that was lacking was an operating system that could meet the demands of the professionals. MINIX was good, but still it was simply an operating system for the students, designed as a teaching tool rather than an industry strength one.

    On November 10, 1983, Microsoft announced Microsoft Windows®,
    Yeah Windows is a few yrs older and a few decades behind.
    Some things just make sense , and when they dont , theres always a hammer .

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    Originally posted by hlrguy
    (Remove-Reload-Reboot hope for the best...arggggh)
    Haha, yeah, I told my Grandma that the three "Rs" of Ms computng is Restart, Reinstall, and reformat.

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    How long will Window last

    Is evident that many of the big Linux/GNU distros are taking a big share in the server market, and the desktop share is getting bigger and bigger every day.

    In my opinion in the short future, Linux will share 50% or more of the desktop market. The only option Bill Gates will have to keep Windows alive will be to make it Open Source,
    Those two word do not seem to go together. It will be a good decision from Bill Gates to not see windows die!!
    It would be interesting to see how an open community could improve many of the problems windows has. that way the world will understand the importance of the open community.

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    They stop working properly when you open Windows.
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    What the hell is up with all the MS bashing lately.

    Get lives people...

    Using the command line does not make you special, deal with it!!!

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