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« Reply #1 on: 14 August 2002, 23:13 »
DOS????

Give me a break!

I for one will be using Palladium in the future.

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« Reply #2 on: 14 August 2002, 23:33 »
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An anonymous reader submits: "As a follow-up to the Slashdot story Dell No Longer Selling Systems w/o Microsoft OS, News.com is reporting that  Dell will sell systems without Windows. Microsoft's new licensing terms stipulate they can't sell PC's without an OS (hence the removal of the NoOS option), so Dell will be offering FreeDOS as an option for some computers. It will come with the computer, but not installed, so that users may install any other OS that they wish. It's a very creative interpretation of Microsoft's licensing terms, and one I imagine Microsoft didn't have in mind."

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« Reply #3 on: 14 August 2002, 23:38 »
It's a shame they only want to sell in quantity and to the business sector.
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« Reply #4 on: 14 August 2002, 23:46 »
just go out and by yerself a walmart PC  
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« Reply #5 on: 15 August 2002, 01:13 »
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Originally posted by Windows XP User #5225982375:
DOS????

Give me a break!

I for one will be using Palladium in the future.



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« Reply #6 on: 15 August 2002, 03:58 »
geee, people like you


we don't we cut his tongue off, break his eardrums, and gouge his eyes out, there, pallidium a few years before its officaly realesd. and while were at it, chop his dick off, cuase somebody must have a patant on orgasms and on masterbation
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« Reply #7 on: 15 August 2002, 12:51 »
if you support palladium, you must be a communist.

palladium basically calls for Microsoft to be not compatible with other Operating systems. it's sort of like the thing of 1 leader, 1 company to control it all.

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« Reply #8 on: 15 August 2002, 21:54 »
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 if you support palladium, you must be a communist.


A russian communist maybe, but real communism isn't like that at all; it's more like LINUX.

You socialist linux heads can all work for red hat and give our enemy china open source technology for all I care.

Microsoft is more like a facist than a communist company.  There is a difference.  Microsoft isn't communist because it is goverened and developed by an elite few instead of by the people. (And I like it that way; most people are idiots and need microsoft's software to use a computer)

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« Reply #9 on: 15 August 2002, 22:01 »
ya, microsoft isnt communist at all (real communism, that is). Communism is supposed to be about all the people as one community sharing the wealth and ehlping eachother. All contributing to the way the country runs. Linux is communist(not the government type of communist) but the communism that is the idea of a community together that shares and helps eachother.

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« Reply #10 on: 15 August 2002, 22:14 »
Besides all these anti-capitalist, anti-intellectual property ideas that come out of the GNU project are a clear attempt to destroy the American way of doing things.

Just read the "GNU Manifesto" and you can rename it to the "Comminist Manifesto" and there would be little difference.  Stallman basically calls for the  end to all owership of intellectual property, and thinks closed source is "damaging to our country's civic spirit."  Well capitalism doesn't work that way; it's about greed, not need.  The desire for the dollar drives this economy; that's why it costs 18 bucks for a cd that cost fifty cents to manufacture.  That's why we need the DMCA so people won't go ripping off Metallica and Warner Bros.  It's all about profit.  When everyone is greedy, everyone prospers.  RMS says "Everyone should have free software," well you take this idea of "helping the less fortunate" to its logical conclusion and you end up embracing communism.  I for one do not want to see this happening in our country.  I like it how our country rewards rock stars and paula jones with millions of dollars but pays scientists and teachers shit for salary, er wait nevermind.  The point is snoop dogg is entertaining and he deserves his gold chains and beotches.  He also deserves your money, so go worship him on MTV and buy his cd's, peeps.  Or he'll bust a cap in yo' ass, bitch!

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« Reply #11 on: 15 August 2002, 22:58 »
well... that was the stupidest thing i've heard in a long time.
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« Reply #12 on: 16 August 2002, 00:11 »
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Originally posted by Windows XP User #5225982375:
Besides all these anti-capitalist, anti-intellectual property ideas that come out of the GNU project are a clear attempt to destroy the American way of doing things.


XP I want you to answer my question directly.  Where the fuck do you get that defenition?  America was founded on the principle that we were sick and tired of the British rulers tightening their reigns on us and telling us what we can and can not do.

Wait a second, I just created an involuntary analogy.  See if you can figure it out...

XP, you do have a point about FreeDOS.  However, you also don't see Dell's intentions.  Microshit will not allow Dell to sell OS-less computers.  And just think about all the technical support hassles that Dell would have to go through if it bundled Linux.  What they are doing is packaging a rinky-dink OS (FreeDOS) that doesn't cost a dman thing, but still counts as an OS.  They know that people will purchase a FreeDOS machine, throw the FreeDOS CD away, and install Linux.  Everyone ends up happy.  Dell doesn't have to provide Tech Support.  Linux users get what they want.  The only loser here is Microsoft, because Dell found a loophole in their agreement.  And there isn't a damn thing M$ can do about it, since if they tightened up their agreement further, it would get the DoJ back on them.

That Michal Dell is one crafty person he...

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« Reply #13 on: 16 August 2002, 02:23 »
well, i don't like the way our government is run anyway, besides, karl marx didn't call for oppression in the first place

POWER CORRUPTS, ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTLY.

in russia, the leader was given too much power, therefore it wasn't cummunism, it was a dictatorship.
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« Reply #14 on: 29 August 2002, 06:20 »
It's just too f**king funny!

Check out linuxsucks.com and you will see that it's flooded with post from people that think Linux is great! How's that for a backfire?!

[ August 28, 2002: Message edited by: RudeCat7 ]

*meow!* I didn't say Linux was easier, I said it was better, Dumbass!