On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 10:26 +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > In the long term the support he gets from XP could become worse than > the support supplied by GNU/Linux. It does not seem wise to me.
There are some cracked XP and 98 se versions out there, that are as good as FreeBSD and Linux for many usages, it's also possible to tune a legal XP and 98 se to be good for many usages. The advantage of Windows over Debian is hardware support and that more people get payed for writing software for exotic usages, such as audio and video editing. _But_ IMO it's important to share knowledge. One of the things a computer and networks are good for, is sharing knowledge and sharing news from different points of view. 1. Open source is needed. IOW I won't use Microsoft and Apple. 2. I e.g. want to read the news from Israel and Palestine, of the USA and the Iran. Could be done with MS and Apple, but in some countries we need security ... did I wrote some? ... in all countries we need security when doing this, so FLOSS is the better way to go, since there are likely less backdoors for the bad guys, if any. Etc. pp. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1389957198.3167.60.camel@archlinux
