On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 06:34:06PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: | also sprach D-Man (on Tue, 03 Jul 2001 12:25:35PM -0400): | > We certainly can do something : use (and develop) Debian while | > boycotting proprietary hardware. Microsoft can't charge us rent for | > using Debian :-). | | word up. but i am less concerned about us since we already do good. i | am concerned about the daddies that go out to buy all this fancy | multimedia bullshit and all the poor people that stock up their | systems to the brim just to satisfy the latest micro$oft disease - | because micro$oft is so full of lies of how you *need* that stuff. who | *needs* windoze ME??? who *needs* winblows XP??? who *needs* | downloadable | play-only-on-your-computer-until-the-next-reinstall-paid-for audio | files??? who *needs* to use hotmail??? who *needs* to sell their soul | to satan by signing up for passport.com???
Well, business is (almost entirely) built on _wants_ not _needs_. Who _needs_ a computer in the first place, after all? All we _need_ is water, food, shelter, clothes, and companionship :-). -D
