Frank said:
Maybe in your little twisted fanatical mind I am.
It's pretty obvious, Frank.
But in reality I don't give a sh*t about linux or you for that matter.
Frank
If that were really true, you wouldn't search the newsgroup for my posts
and reply to almost every one. If that were really true, you would
ignore both me and any posts on Linux. Instead, you jump on every one.
You just can't stand the idea that something good can be free and firmly
believe in the sales pitch, "you get what you pay for" which is, of
course, not always true, but a common sales pitch, especially if what's
being sold is expensive.
You're acting like I have been a Linux user for decades when, in
reality, I have used Windows since 87 and was a very loyal and happy
Windows user and I cheerfully paid for each and every one from DOS to
XP. That is until they came out with the WPA, WGA anti piracy crap which
came to a head one day when I was having problems with a NIC card on one
of my machines that just wouldn't install properly to get on line. So,
after uninstalling the card, taking it out of the PCI slot and
reinstalling it, I was nagged to activate. I did and it went through
online. I rebooted. I had to activate again. I did and it went through
online. I turned off the machine and went to bed. The next day I fire it
up and it wants to be activated again! It activates online. I reboot
and, sure enough, it wants to be activated again! By this time, I am a
bit teed off and I try to activate it online and am told my license "may
not be genuine" and I have a number in Morocco to call. I call and get
activated after swearing up and down about how it was not moved to
another computer.
Coincidentally, I see NoSTop posting about Ubuntu on XP General and
check it out. It looks very Windowsish so I figure I might be able to
learn it and not have to put up with this anymore. I contacted NoStop
and he recommended I order the CD. When it came and I installed it in on
a AMD K6 800 with 512MB RAM in less than an hour (man, that was easy
compared to installing XP!), NoStop was kind enough to invite me to a
private IRC room and help me with some of the basics and directed me to
web sites to get more information and I've been happily using it ever
since without any problems at all. Not only that, each version is
better, smoother, stabler with more features than the previous version.
It seems like it was made out of the love of doing it, not for the love
of money.
