First, i don't. Second, i haven't said that i do. Third, politics is outside the scope of this discussion, please leave it there.
participating in a free market.
Please take a moment to consider this tired old phrase: Time is money
Linux and windows are both part of this free market. For both products you pay a combination of time and money. Some like paying more money and saving time, some like paying more time and saving money, that's all there is to it.
then you have major problems expressing yourself in words, since you wrote:
Uhm... I wrote this (in the parent post), it wasn't the last poster.
You stated these assertions as facts, not as misconceptions that PC users may have
Admitted. Still, that has nothing to do with politics. If you wish to continue that line, then please do so without expecting replies.
incorrect statements about supposed advantages of Windows over Linux
You might perceive the overall balance of things to be much more in favour of linux than windows. There's nothing wrong with that, and personally i can understand why and i even tend to agree.
Still, when thinking about the average user of a PC/mac/whatever i don't think about myself, and i probably don't think about you either. The common users are not all that sophisticated, and things experienced users tend to take for granted might be big mysteries to them.
>> So freedom is bad, choice is bad, knowledge is bad,
Nah, none of it is bad imho... it's just that the cost of all this isn't measured in currency, but in time and, well... what i choose to spend mine on isn't exactly what "the average joe" decides to do with his...
Otoh, the cost of time saving tends to be freedom, knowledge and choice;-)
I mean, the windows users are the ones that are spoiled...
- no difficult choices during setup (pre-configured PCs)
- no need to read difficult manpages and other such stuff
- most hardware just works out of the box
- no need to choose between distros
- no need to choose between multiple software packages that do the same job, just differently
...not intended as flamebait, it's just that (as seen from an ordinary PC user's perspective) the freedom implies choice, and choice means that you have to obtain knowledge, which implies costs (in terms of time) and perceived risk.
it's quite simple really. We don't want them and we certainly don't need them. Common copyright is adequate enough.
The current situation in the US with patents on right clicking, single click purchase, double clicking.. granted, it's mechanics and not software per se, but still... it's simply ridiculous.
let us grow Google to the size it is today from something that was orders of magnitude smaller -- a thousand times smaller -- from when we first started the company.
>> a low tech solution
why would anyone want to pick a lock in the first place... either you would want something to appear on the opposite side of the door, or you would want to appear on the opposite side yourself. If you can't get through it, just get around it or wait until somebody opens the thing.
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First, i don't. Second, i haven't said that i do. Third, politics is outside the scope of this discussion, please leave it there.
participating in a free market.
Please take a moment to consider this tired old phrase: Time is money
Linux and windows are both part of this free market. For both products you pay a combination of time and money. Some like paying more money and saving time, some like paying more time and saving money, that's all there is to it.
Uhm... I wrote this (in the parent post), it wasn't the last poster.
You stated these assertions as facts, not as misconceptions that PC users may have
Admitted. Still, that has nothing to do with politics. If you wish to continue that line, then please do so without expecting replies.
incorrect statements about supposed advantages of Windows over Linux
You might perceive the overall balance of things to be much more in favour of linux than windows. There's nothing wrong with that, and personally i can understand why and i even tend to agree.
Still, when thinking about the average user of a PC/mac/whatever i don't think about myself, and i probably don't think about you either. The common users are not all that sophisticated, and things experienced users tend to take for granted might be big mysteries to them.
Nah, none of it is bad imho... it's just that the cost of all this isn't measured in currency, but in time and, well... what i choose to spend mine on isn't exactly what "the average joe" decides to do with his...
Otoh, the cost of time saving tends to be freedom, knowledge and choice ;-)
- no difficult choices during setup (pre-configured PCs)
- no need to read difficult manpages and other such stuff
- most hardware just works out of the box
- no need to choose between distros
- no need to choose between multiple software packages that do the same job, just differently
it's quite simple really. We don't want them and we certainly don't need them. Common copyright is adequate enough.
The current situation in the US with patents on right clicking, single click purchase, double clicking.. granted, it's mechanics and not software per se, but still... it's simply ridiculous.
I read this:
Now, what's 10,000 times 1,000 percent?
define:answer
>> questions
Something like, say, 200 miles in metres?
You've all been participating in an interactive marketing campaign for a search engine optimization company... innovative way to do it, i'd say.
>> a low tech solution
why would anyone want to pick a lock in the first place... either you would want something to appear on the opposite side of the door, or you would want to appear on the opposite side yourself. If you can't get through it, just get around it or wait until somebody opens the thing.