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INANE THREAD: Dear god....I just thought of a way for M$ to be even more sadistic...

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AlexMax:
Exactly.  It would be so easy (though the DoJ would probably bust them on this one) for Microsoft to screw up any ext2/3 drives on a system and claim it as an incompatability.

Why would it want to?  To keep the newbies from 'trying out' Linux on a dual-booting system and discouraging them early.

Calum:
those dumbasses can die with the rest when Microsoft finally goes bust then. All the more reason to bring the fuckers down.

So far, all windows up to xp do not have this built in, and xp is fucking pish anyway, so anybody with any brains who wants to dual boot will use an older copy of windows with no xp, no palladium and no ext2/3 incompatibility. If it were to ever happen that is...

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