Value of WinXP and RHPW [was re:User Linux]
Wyatt Berka
catscratch at truetotexas.org
Wed Feb 11 18:16:12 UTC 2004
David Jansen wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 12:38:14PM -0500, jrt1 at duke.edu wrote:
> [...]
>
>>Gimp has been ported to Windows. Open Office is available for Windows.
>>So I think adding them to the windows price is also not fair. However, it
>>is true that Open Office and Gimp come pre-installed with RH.
>>
>>I use Linux because I like it, not because it costs less. Ultimately,
>>we want the Linux experience to be better than windows. Pre-installed,
>>useful software does help accomplish this goal.
>
>
> Apart from price lists and just as much off-topic as most of this
> discussion], I have another observation here: Why is it people are ok
> with downloading and installing tons of additional software to turn
> windows into something which starts to resemble a decent operating
> system on the one hand, but on the other hand, this list is swamped with
> requests like "why doesn't FC include nvidia/mp3/flash/java/your_favorite
> non_free_or_otherwise_unavailable_app_here" ?
>
> I don't know the answer, just something to share with the list...
>
> David Jansen
>
>
LOL
We're human. We'll never be happy. We want the free stuff on Windows
and the commercial stuff on Linux... go figre.
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