Even my family is just now accepting OpenOffice, ~9 months after switching. They want(ed) MS, but I wouldn't help/let them pirate it.
My brother's laptop's internet dies every 10 minutes, requiring a reboot (some, uh, 'blunt force trama' inflicted with a wall after an he had an argument with my sister), and it drives him nuts (Ethernet and wifi are both aflicted, and an external USB wifi adaptor doesn't help, either). Kubuntu's LiveCD booted and stayed connected to the internet for hours, so it's not a hardware problem, but he won't let me install it. He doesn't want to give up XP (a reinstall of that may help, but again, I won't help him pirate).
So yes, people are brainwashed. And yes, I probably am, too. But a fanboi has a diffrent mindset from someone who resists anything diffrent for no other reason than it is different.
But those software makers don't make thier software for Linux (which I am thankful for)
Also, Linux users are the most likely to know how to remove thier 'product'. Those that don't will be able to get a script from ubuntuforums.org. Those that don't know how to do either but still managed to find and buy a PC with Linux on it will be a very small minority.
I have a vintage iMac with 256MB of RAM running OSX 10.3. It works well (although I did install 10.4 on a nearly identical machine and that ran poorly).
They barely grasp the concept of 'open source', and almost totally reject that. Asking them to understand the 'free as in freedom' issue may be too much.
They _are_ a monopoly. They do use unfair practices to "compete". They will stoop to almost any low to avoid a level playing field. This isn't FUD in the normal sense of the word. It's fact.
...just hypotheses and results that you better not question because then you might piss off someone, lose you grants and be blackballed in peer reviews.
If you replaced "losing grants" with "excommunication", wouldn't that be dogma? A rose by any other name...
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No, we don't have the recovery disc. It's not very new.
Even my family is just now accepting OpenOffice, ~9 months after switching. They want(ed) MS, but I wouldn't help/let them pirate it.
My brother's laptop's internet dies every 10 minutes, requiring a reboot (some, uh, 'blunt force trama' inflicted with a wall after an he had an argument with my sister), and it drives him nuts (Ethernet and wifi are both aflicted, and an external USB wifi adaptor doesn't help, either). Kubuntu's LiveCD booted and stayed connected to the internet for hours, so it's not a hardware problem, but he won't let me install it. He doesn't want to give up XP (a reinstall of that may help, but again, I won't help him pirate).
So yes, people are brainwashed.
And yes, I probably am, too. But a fanboi has a diffrent mindset from someone who resists anything diffrent for no other reason than it is different.
Because it breeds the thought that there are alternatives to MS software. It's easier to 'convert' someone that has an open mind.
But those software makers don't make thier software for Linux (which I am thankful for)
Also, Linux users are the most likely to know how to remove thier 'product'. Those that don't will be able to get a script from ubuntuforums.org. Those that don't know how to do either but still managed to find and buy a PC with Linux on it will be a very small minority.
For more of that great feeling of superiority...
Dell XPS m1330's are routinely more expensive with Ubuntu installed.
Meh, Dell can't subsidize the install with third-party software.
Wine's C: is located at ~/.wine/drive_c/
'Formatting' that isn't gonna help you install XP.
I thought the limit was one copy. For backup purposes.
As a bonus question: has Richard Stallman ever denoted software as free that was not licensed with GPL?
Public Domain?
I have a vintage iMac with 256MB of RAM running OSX 10.3. It works well (although I did install 10.4 on a nearly identical machine and that ran poorly).
Extinguish!
Frank Shoemaker would call this noise.
In more ways than one.
Why not? All you are transferring is an X session.
...it couldn't play YouTube...
<video> tags, anyone?
...and a pony!
No. It's stocked with kool aid.
They barely grasp the concept of 'open source', and almost totally reject that. Asking them to understand the 'free as in freedom' issue may be too much.
They _are_ a monopoly. They do use unfair practices to "compete". They will stoop to almost any low to avoid a level playing field. This isn't FUD in the normal sense of the word. It's fact.
I call FUD
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Google Trends agrees with you.
...just hypotheses and results that you better not question because then you might piss off someone, lose you grants and be blackballed in peer reviews.
If you replaced "losing grants" with "excommunication", wouldn't that be dogma? A rose by any other name...
...making Falcon 9 the most powerful single core vehicle in the United States.
Even Apple is using dual-cores now.
ActiveX-enabled Internet Explorer
What's your IP address again?
You could do that. Or you could copy the flv from your /tmp/ folder.
Ditto for GENI.