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SpeeDFreaK

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Would you pay $56 to see Microsoft go away?
« on: 9 December 2002, 21:43 »
Or would you consider it a waste of money? I'm just curious to see what you guys think.
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« Reply #1 on: 9 December 2002, 21:50 »
Oops. My bad! Mods please move this to the lounge. Thanks!
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« Reply #2 on: 9 December 2002, 21:52 »
Microsoft has already left my house and it didn't cost me a penny. In fact, I made money on the deal.
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« Reply #3 on: 9 December 2002, 21:59 »
yes, i already bought a redhat hat.lost it though. and im thinking about gettting the newest verison of SuSe
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« Reply #4 on: 9 December 2002, 10:21 »
$56 to make M$ go away would be money well spent.  I would do it if it wasn't free already.

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« Reply #5 on: 9 December 2002, 12:48 »
I paid $30 to make microsoft go away in my house. I run Mandrake linux 9.0 on 3 computers here.
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« Reply #6 on: 9 December 2002, 21:06 »
I don't mind paying for OSS.

I do mind paying lots for nothing though.

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« Reply #7 on: 9 December 2002, 22:22 »
quote:
Originally posted by void main:
Microsoft has already left my house and it didn't cost me a penny. In fact, I made money on the deal.


i concur. well said.

People who tell you you must pay to make microsoft leave are bullshitting you.
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« Reply #8 on: 11 December 2002, 12:47 »
I've bought a couple of distros: Mandrake 8.1 and Libranet 2.7, and got a few more from these low-cost CD suppliers. Still didn't cost as much as the XP upgrade, and a much better value to be sure. M$ is completely gone here, and I can't say I miss it one bit    
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« Reply #9 on: 11 December 2002, 21:07 »
i have official CDs of some distros but i didnt buy them. Mandrake 5 secure server edition, Redhat 7, CorelOS, and soon to have one of the first versions of linux.
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« Reply #10 on: 12 December 2002, 14:32 »
I'm Microsoft-free too (except for my mouse, but I view that as taking advantage of them) since I got rid of IE, but Microsoft is hurting a lot of people and is still causing harm to the Macintosh computing experience in general.

Hell yes, I would pay $56. I would pay $1000 (provided I had time to save up for it). I'm surprised that most of you are being so passive about this. This is the Microsoft Eradication Forums for crying out loud!

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« Reply #11 on: 25 December 2002, 15:35 »
paying 56 bucks for them to leave is a lot cheaper than paying about 170 bucks to keep em (cost of XP Pro)

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« Reply #12 on: 25 December 2002, 18:37 »
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Originally posted by Chooco:
paying 56 bucks for them to leave is a lot cheaper than paying about 170 bucks to keep em (cost of XP Pro)


170? In Sweden, XP costs the equivalent of 276
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« Reply #13 on: 25 December 2002, 18:59 »
Here for XP it is around $550 for the Pro and $580 for the home!!   :eek:    :eek:    :eek:   It is absolute BS.

WinME and 2k are also are also priced at around $500 - weird isnt it?
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« Reply #14 on: 27 December 2002, 11:49 »
$56 was their share price a few weeks ago. Reason being maybe it's possible to take MS down from the inside...
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