NeuromancerWGDD'U said:
When you buy Windows, or any other software, you are purchasing the software; not the right to use the software on a machine.
Why dont you read what it is you're buying! It clearly says in plain english that you are buying one licence for one machine at a time. It clearly says in plain english that you are buying one license for one machine at a time. (Wrote it twice as you seem to be having trouble with it)
It is so stupid to argue otherwise, and even more stupid since there are loads of things like this in the world. Take your MOT for an example or road tax as another. You cant sell your mot to another car (sorry mot is a certificate or roadworthiness in the uk)
Or driving licence, household insurance, site construction licences, in fact any kind of asset licences or lease arrangement. They are all the same, the licence is for ONE thing only and you cant transfer it.
How about a train ticket, and plane ticket, you bought it it doesn mean you can use it on any train or plane.
NeuromancerWGDD'U said:
practically constitutes rape
Err, easy buddy.
NeuromancerWGDD'U said:
A boycott of this sort is fairly pointless seeing as the standard user isn't going to care enough about/be angered enough about Microsoft's actions to do anything.
Exactly, and they are sold with the standard user in mind, not people like you and me
Does schumacher complain because his ford wont go fast enough, no it was made for the standard user!
NeuromancerWGDD'U said:
there is a simple solution; find an alternative, or quit bitching.
There isn't always an alternative available. e.g. I hate the london underground, you point me out a better way to get to work in the morning and ill show you a man pointing at a helicopter. (busses take 10x as long over huge distances)
flame said:
Ku-sama, I now really dislike youy, which I dout you care but, well first the M$ is really pissing me off, and secend you can buy the parts for you PC and everything but you cant pay 90$ for a freakin OS?
That is simply dumb, are you suggesting that M$ should be free because of that??
Please sir i can afford the spanish hotel room so the flight should be free!!!
If you cant afford it- get a job.
If fact you could reverse that dumb ass remark, i can afford most parts for a pc and 90$ for an OS, BUT i cant afford a freakin CPU
does that mean they should be free, under your idea it does???
flame said:
(Nope, I can't get in trouble for that, I didn't "Directly" call him an asshole,
YES you did, and YES you can
Anyways, that didn't happen and you know it, and why would you spend so much time to make it combatible to get barly any more sales?
Microsoft os's dominate the desktop market, but you tell me how many multiuser national plc's, llps, ltd's use microsoft. It's all ibm, sun, and there varying unix flavours. And let me tell you these are the ones who pay top dollar for licences
4W4K3 said:
Such as only being able to use the OS on one computer, or not being able to re-sell it after you are done with it. You bought it, why can't you do what you want with it? MY ideaology : If i pay to own something, it's mine. Movie rentals and such i can understand...but software?
Under your ideaology nothing would get done. There are lots of things that you cant resell, you try selling a gun that you bought.
"If i pay to own something, it's mine."
Yes if you god damn pay for xp then you can have it, unfortunatly xp source code is probably a few billion pounds, if you cant bloody afford that then xp will kindly sell you a licence to use it on one machine for about $80. The friggin choice is up to you.
I didn't pay for Linux, and someone coded that and spent years working on it. Why does everything have to be payed for?
a) Not all linux version are free
b) If you knew about linux then you'd understand how it was made, and wouldn't come up with silly remarks like "someone coded that and spent years working on it"
4W4K3 said:
Why sell my HDD with my OS, if I still need the HDD and not the OS? It's like selling your car because you want to sell your spare tire that you don't need.
a) Again if you knew what you were talking about you'd know that you'd have to sell the whole machine not just the HDD
b) No it not like selling your car for the tire you dont need, its like selling your driving licence because you dont want to drive anymore - simply put YOU CAN'T.
4W4K3 said:
Linux can make many many distros/OS's and have them be free,
There not all free, especially the corporate ones, so dont go all high and mightly about linux being anti-capitalist on me.
4W4K3 said:
Well the simply fact of the matter is that from a desktop perspective linux is incredibly non user freindly. Its getting better, but it is no where near as gui as xp, and its predecessors. And compatibility is way lower than xp. And the reason is, its not aimed at that market!
So if your saying how do they make an os that stacks upto xp for the retail market - simple .... they dont
(now just as a point i love linux, and for that matter microsoft as i'm sure most regulars will know)
4W4K3 said:
but can somehow manage to get an OS done and workable, and not pay anybody for it.
a)well i could make a workable car from some scrap and an old engine block, and wouldn't have to pay anybody. But it wouldn't be as good as a my accorde (honda)
b)And another one who doesn't know linux origins
4W4K3 said:
all I said was I don't like them, and people can't seem to handle that.
If that was all you'd said then people would have been fine.
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