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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: It isn't easy being "green"...
To: Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com (Brett Glass)
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> > 8-).  It's *illegal* in the US to tamper with this if you are getting
> > the tax break for the green-ness hardware (it's called "tax evasion").
> 
> Nope. The tax break only requires a certain percentage of machines to be
> "green." And "green" machines are only supposed to save energy while
> inactive.  Clearly, if you're installing an OS on the machine or using it
> to run tasks constantly or frequently (as UNIX does), it's legitimate (in
> fact, essential) to keep the hard drive spun up.

Yeah, but given "what idiot would leave it on for a desktop?", you
could quickly drop below the required percentage.  8-) 8-).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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