Re: "ABC Consumer Reports" doesn't recommend Linux

From: Alan Connor (xxxxxx_at_xxxx.xxx)
Date: 08/10/03 

Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 17:47:03 GMT

On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 17:29:59 +0100, Alex Kemp <alex@lessspam-alexkemp.co.uk> wrote:
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> Alan Connor wrote:
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>>>>If you want to waste this incredible tool by turning it into a TV or a
>>>>sound system or a video arcade, then your are a sellout.
>>> <shrug> Some people just don't get understand the point of freedom.
>> Some people just don't understand the point of ethics and morals....
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> What's immoral or unethical about letting someone use their computer for watching TV or legitimate CDs? It's their computer, it's free software, it makes them happy, there is no cost to you or anyone else. Where's the issue?
>

But there IS a cost to most of the people on the planet, because the hardware
required, both in the computer and in the infrastructure of the internet
(as in broadband..) is too expensive by miles. And the software won't work
without the right hardware...

The websites are unintellible to people with "simple" computers, if they can
access them at all. The incredible cost of the broadband connections is
subsidized by those with dial-ups.

If they CAN access the website, it can take forever to download a single
page.

Because the ISPs are basically controlled by the majority of their customers,
and stockholders, they are not permitted to set standards or provide service
for people and areas that will not be able to afford the latest equipment.

The sort of selfish over-indulgence that some fools here are calling "freedom"
is excluding most of the world from the internet.

Hey, you do what you want, and I will not-buy whatever you are selling.

Fair enough?

Nor will I play by your rules.

My computer deals with text and static graphics only.

All your silly eye and ear candy is utterly wasted on me.
I never see or hear it.

Too bad.

And while you are wasting your lives playing games and watching juvenile
videos and listening to idiots bang on guitars they can't even tune,

I am learning how to use the computer and internet and to find ways around
all the obstacles to freedom that you and your ilk erect.

I get NO junkmail or punkmail now. NONE.

Alan 

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