Microsoft Laptop Recipient Auctioning Laptop

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday December 28, 2006 @09:00PM from the something-for-nothing dept.

Salvance writes "While most bloggers who received the controversial Vista powered Acer from Microsoft are keeping them, Laughing Squid has decided to auction off his free laptop from Microsoft and donate all proceeds to the The Electronic Frontier Foundation. (EFF) He saw this as a great opportunity to support a worthy cause, and some other bloggers are following suit. What's funny is that Microsoft is now backpedaling and telling bloggers to send back the laptops. Do they even have a legal right to do so?"

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Re:This article needs to be changed. by MaGogue · 2006-12-29 00:49 · Score: 1, Offtopic

.. because we're better than they are
Define "better":
"Better" is a linear total order relation. And there are plenty of such.
Under certain rules of game, by natural selection, you get a natural "better" order.
Philosophically, under idealist rules, we are "better" than they are because we "don't lie".
Under real-world rules, though, we suck. Heavily. That's why we chatter on Slashdot, and they drink Dom Perignon.