[Tfug] [OT] Microsoft Windows 7: Upgrade or just buy a pizza?

[Jordan Aberle]

Windows 7 should be a free upgrade to Vista, it's comparable in the way
win98se is to win98.
Install linux, buy a pizza.



On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 8:44 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> I think most programmers make money working for someone else.  If that
> someone is giving away their goods then where does that money come from.
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> A good model to look at is RHEL vs CentOS.
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> --- On *Mon, 4/13/09, Terence Rudkin <trudkin at gmail.com>* wrote:
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> From: Terence Rudkin <trudkin at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Tfug] [OT] Microsoft Windows 7: Upgrade or just buy a pizza?
> To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
> Date: Monday, April 13, 2009, 8:18 PM
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> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 8:09 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com<http://mc/compose?to=klsmith2020@yahoo.com>
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>> ??? then how would coders make money ???
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> You think M$ coder make money. Only inverter make money.  Look at company
> like CA and BMC, Charging big license fees and producing noting in return.
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> Coder make money by producing something the markets wants.  But be careful,
> someone will come along and  market it and make some real money.
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>> --- On *Mon, 4/13/09, Zack Williams <zdwzdw at gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=zdwzdw@gmail.com>
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>> From: Zack Williams <zdwzdw at gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=zdwzdw@gmail.com>
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>> Subject: Re: [Tfug] [OT] Microsoft Windows 7: Upgrade or just buy a pizza?
>> To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org<http://mc/compose?to=tfug@tfug.org>
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>> Date: Monday, April 13, 2009, 7:52 PM
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>> >     * Consumer confusion (and subsequent anger) about what they are
>> > paying for in the first place
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>> Which, when it comes down to it, is pretty much nothing.   What you
>> get when you buy software licensing is the emperor's new clothes.
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>> That said, I for one want to see every license enforced in the most
>> draconian method possible.  It would be the single best way to get
>> people to adopt truly free and open source software.
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>> > Of course, the *real* question you should be asking, here, is:
>> > WITH or WITHOUT anchovies?
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>> With, of course!
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>> - Zack
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