From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Dec 8 8:42: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (mta07-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6DE937B426 for ; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 08:41:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from lungfish.ntlworld.com ([62.253.144.167]) by mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.23 201-229-121-123-20010418) with ESMTP id <20011208164153.EUCZ10846.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@lungfish.ntlworld.com>; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 16:41:53 +0000 Received: from boog.goatsucker.org (boog.goatsucker.org [192.168.1.3]) by lungfish.ntlworld.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fB8Gfln63802; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 16:41:47 GMT (envelope-from scott@boog.goatsucker.org) Received: (from scott@localhost) by boog.goatsucker.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA03565; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 16:41:14 GMT (envelope-from scott) Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 16:41:14 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: Mike Meyer , Konstantinos Konstantinidis , chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Brad Knowles Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20011208164114.F280@localhost> References: <0112071641320B.01380@stinky.akitanet.co.uk><000b01c17f42$c23ab140$0a0 <15377.17350.796336.801464@guru.mired.org> <006901c17f70$19a2f820$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <03df01c18002$11aee8d0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <03df01c18002$11aee8d0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>; from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 04:16:50PM +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 04:16:50PM +0000, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Scott writes: > > > Indeed, where they will invariably purchase > > a machine running Windows, because that's all > > that the store sells, because that's all that > > most manufacturers produce. > > All the stores I know of sell at least Windows and the Mac, and most sell > Linux as well, although only the first two of these are usually available > preinstalled. You're lucky, then. That hasn't been my experience, but then I do try to avoid going into computer stores if I can avoid them. > > I wonder why that might be? > > It isn't. Oh? Most manufacturers of consumer-grade desktop PCs *will* sell me a machine preinstalled with something other then Windows, and without any part of the price going to Microsoft? I'm well aware that some companies will do this, but some is not most, as you pointed out previously. > > Surely nothing to do with the licencing > > practices of a certain monopolist company? > > Correct. Apple has no control over Windows licensing, and vice versa, and > Linux is free to anyone. > > > I doubt that most of these customers are asked > > about their requirements much beyond 'how much > > are you willing spend', nor are they told that > > any alternatives to Windows might exist. > > Nor does it matter, since the type of operating system they use is no more > important to them than the technology of the washing machine they buy. How do you know it's not important to them? You didn't ask. -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message