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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: SpeeDFreaK on 9 December 2002, 21:43

Title: Would you pay $56 to see Microsoft go away?
Post by: SpeeDFreaK 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.
Title: Would you pay $56 to see Microsoft go away?
Post by: SpeeDFreaK on 9 December 2002, 21:50: Oops. My bad! Mods please move this to the lounge. Thanks!
Title: Would you pay $56 to see Microsoft go away?
Post by: voidmain 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.
Title: Would you pay $56 to see Microsoft go away?
Post by: choasforages 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
Title: Would you pay $56 to see Microsoft go away?
Post by: Doctor V 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.
Title: Would you pay $56 to see Microsoft go away?
Post by: preacher 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.
Title: Would you pay $56 to see Microsoft go away?
Post by: zooloo on 9 December 2002, 21:06: I don't mind paying for OSS.

I do mind paying lots for nothing though.

zooloo
Title: Would you pay $56 to see Microsoft go away?
Post by: Calum 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.
Title: Would you pay $56 to see Microsoft go away?
Post by: jtpenrod on 11 December 2002, 12:47: I've bought a couple of distros: Mandrake 8.1 and Libranet 2.7, and got a few more from these low-cost CD suppliers. Still didn't cost as much as the XP upgrade, and a much better value to be sure. M$ is completely gone here, and I can't say I miss it one bit (http://tongue.gif)
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Title: Would you pay $56 to see Microsoft go away?
Post by: Master of Reality 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.
Title: Would you pay $56 to see Microsoft go away?
Post by: Pissed_Macman 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!
Title: Would you pay $56 to see Microsoft go away?
Post by: Chooco 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)
Title: Would you pay $56 to see Microsoft go away?
Post by: cahult on 25 December 2002, 18:37: quote:
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
Title: Would you pay $56 to see Microsoft go away?
Post by: smokey 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?
Title: Would you pay $56 to see Microsoft go away?
Post by: SpeeDFreaK 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...
Title: Would you pay $56 to see Microsoft go away?
Post by: Annorax on 27 December 2002, 16:33: A small tactical warhead would get the job done at a much lower price...
Title: Would you pay $56 to see Microsoft go away?
Post by: DC on 29 December 2002, 08:13: quote:
Originally posted by The Rev. Annorax:
A small tactical warhead would get the job done at a much lower price...

You can buy small tactical warheads for 56 dollars? Where? Me wants one!
Title: Would you pay $56 to see Microsoft go away?
Post by: choasforages on 29 December 2002, 08:25: hell yes i would spend 56 bucks. that would probably pay for the pentium 2 machine i need to run solarise ix86 or x86 darwin
Title: Would you pay $56 to see Microsoft go away?
Post by: solo on 30 December 2002, 03:26: who gets the money?

i would never give microsoft the money, but hey i would pay $56 along with everyone else who wanted to for a professional assassin to take out bill gates, steve ballmer and his cronies.

FUCK MICROSOFT. And yes, it's personal
Title: Would you pay $56 to see Microsoft go away?
Post by: choasforages on 30 December 2002, 23:05: umm, didn't some eagle scout build a reactor in his shed or something
Title: Would you pay $56 to see Microsoft go away?
Post by: beltorak0 on 31 December 2002, 02:40: yes; actually i don't think he was into scouts, but he started working on it when he was 15, and completed it when he was 17. quite inventive means of gaining his material. I read how he did it in reader's digest a few years ago. Anyone interested?
Title: Would you pay $56 to see Microsoft go away?
Post by: SAJChurchey on 31 December 2002, 20:47: Sure, I'd pay $56 to make M$ go away if I could afford it and weren't a broke college student.

So, I just settle for downloading ISOs of any Linux distro I want to try or implement.
Title: Would you pay $56 to see Microsoft go away?
Post by: ravuya on 2 January 2003, 02:37: Here I thought we were all chipping in for some kind of assault weapon. One of the huge benefits of Linux is that it's free. All you have to pay for is the hardware.

I just download the ISOs, but sometimes it is very nice to have tech support along for the ride. I'm just afraid of when the megacorps try releasing their own Linux versions.
Title: Would you pay $56 to see Microsoft go away?
Post by: Oversight on 2 January 2003, 06:01: It is only an opinion but I think the older dudes, 20+ with jobs would actually pay for their favorite Linux OS, I did. 30-60 bucks isn't really alot for a very good OS compared to 200 dollar Windows XP home edition. The Mac Addicts pay much more for their computers.
Title: Would you pay $56 to see Microsoft go away?
Post by: solo on 4 January 2003, 08:56: ive always used a 700 mgz hp pc, it came with winme, i pirated xp but it was slow (i had 64 mb of ram) i got linux, 64 mb was great with it, my friend gave me some old memory mods that i threw in there and am presently at 196 mb. and of course i paid absolutely nothing past buying the pc. i have no plans of upgrading, unless they start releasing good native games for linux, in which i would want a good 1.5 ghz and up. i dont even try to play games on this. im sure they would work well but not as good as my gamecube or ps2 so thats what i settle for.
Title: Would you pay $56 to see Microsoft go away?
Post by: Pissed_Macman on 11 January 2003, 06:23: quote:
Originally posted by Oversight:
It is only an opinion but I think the older dudes, 20+ with jobs would actually pay for their favorite Linux OS, I did. 30-60 bucks isn't really alot for a very good OS compared to 200 dollar Windows XP home edition. The Mac Addicts pay much more for their computers.

Actually Windows users pay more than Mac users in the long run. Mac users pay more to get their software and hardware, but over a two year period Windows users would shell out a lot more bucks than us Maccies.