the problem is there is nothing the little man can do except refuse to buy microsoft, but hey how many of us here can honestly say they paid for windows :whistle:
the problem is they will always make huge money through corperate networks. but they are slowly losing out cuz with a linux distro u jus buy it once.
as for my strength of reaction to the kid saying microsoft is just buisness, if he had actually read what borodin had taken the time to write and understood it he wouldent have made such a smug little remark.
@vazdru but yeah you are right man. that is exactly what annoyed me like you are saying its almost like looking at hitler and saying "oh well its just politics"
(i could not post when i have had a drink but then i would rarely post, i like a couple of beers in the evening's but occasionly when i have had more than a couple it can lead to posts that i regret, but i dont edit them out from existance becuse a: it feels like cheating b: it reminds me not to get to drunk )
i actually like you analogy of comparing the rise of nazis to microsoft, LOL. zieg hiel mein bill gates, the thing is all we can do about it is to not buy microsoft, but then if you buy a game developed for windows dont they pay microsoft to develop for microsoft p.cs?
back in the days you bought a computer and it worked. this is i think a part of the reosen for nostalgia, my zx speccy worked, i turned it on and that was it. i could copy code out from books and not need a compiler to get it to work, i didnt have to wait for the o.s to load. and sir clive didnt go around trying to stop competition using fromt companys and dirty tricks. it was a simpler time. of course my speccy could not play movies, and to connect it to the net would have taken a hell of a lot of hassell, but there you go, times change, but as pc.s get faster and faster and yet another version of windows is announced i start getting nostalgic for the days when i could just turn the dam thing on and it worked instantly.
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