A Different Take On PC Manus' 'Recycling' Schemes

Timex writes "Linux Devices is reporting that the COO of Linux startup Symbio Technologies, Roger Del Russo, claims that the recycling programs of Dell and HP are nothing more than a means of getting older systems out of use, to be replaced by newer systems. Mr Del Russo then makes the case for putting the older systems to good use as thin clients, using the Linux Terminal Server Project."

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Re:irony

[Anonymous Coward]

Which does indeed beg the question, [some question]

Did you really have to say "indeed" when using the phrase incorrectly?

It is indeed ironic. (Get it?)

Re:Hmm

[hobbsbutcher]

There's a dfference between the two though. I have the right to "bear" a gun. But I have to pay for the gun myself. The right to bear arms does not entitle me to go take one from somebody else. Rights must be free. There is already a "right" to health care. You have the right to make whatever health care arrangements you want for your family, but, and here's the key, you have to pay for them. What you are talking about is an entitlement, which goes beyond just a right. When someone says "I have a right to health care", what they more often than not mean is "I want someone else to pay for my health care" but they realize that that statement would be greeted with appropriate scorn. If you want the government to pay for everybody's health care (and consequently have access to everybody's health records) then you certainly can, but call it what it is - an entitlement.