re: Two curious errors I haven't seen before in this OS
Thursday, October 1, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(3932 messages posted)
Kiwi wrote:
|I have more time than spendable income (retired),
|and these oldies are relatively cheap to assemble,
|and have plenty of usability left in them.
C K wrote:
:I hate throwing useable things away, if someone can make use of it.
Amen and amen.
You fellas are reminding me of this guy in Austin, Texas:
from the Usenet Archive: The HeliOS Project
A big difference is that he doesn't have to bother with software licenses
because he doesn't use software that has EULAs.
Some time back, he almost lost his temper
when a know-it-all teacher took away a student's Free Software CDs
because she thought anything that wasn't M$ stuff was pirated.
What he did that got folks' attention was to write an open letter
criticizing ignorance and sheep-like acceptance WRT payware and software licences.
http://google.com/search?q=teacher+"Ken.Stark"
The amazing thing is that if schools didn't squander so much money on payware,
they could use that money to augment their teachers' salaries.
By accepting M$'s "gifts" (and M$ lock-in), they are cutting their own throats.
Schools outside the USA have realized that e.g. Malaysia, Spain, Russia, Brazil...
Here in the home of the bravesheep,
adoption of Free(dom) Software is MUCH slower.
BTW, Kiwi, your "HTML" (font color & size) isn't coming thru
--because it isn't valid HTML.
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