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Re: Win Convenience Parition
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- Subject: Re: Win Convenience Parition
- From: Eli Marmor <marmor(at-nospam)elmar.co.il>
- Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 12:10:18 +0200
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Sorry if the response is a little flaming, but I don't think that
owning licenses of MS is the business of anybody.
> And do you bloat up the price of your Linux system by bying an MS license,
Unfortunately, most of the PC's are shipped these days with a
"built-in" license for Win. In addition, some of us receive legal
copies of the various versions of Win from MS. And in addition,
many deals and packages (like a dial-up account in ISP) include a
license as a gift. In addition to all of this, sometimes old PC's
die, but the license of the Win which was installed on them is
still alive. Of course, I could contribute licenses as a charity,
instead of using them for very uncommon and rare cases, but as I
wrote above, it should not be the the business of anybody.
But even spending $90-$200 for a legal copy, doesn't look so
strange for me these days, when mediocre lawyers charge $200 per
a hour, a simple car cost 100,000 NIS, and the costs of employing
a programmer are 40,000 NIS per a month. I'm miser, but not so
extreme.
> too ? I think you shoot a bit beside the target here, I never ever met a
> system where Window helped me with HW diagnostics when I couldn't do it
> with Linux. Usually Windows is much worse (and you can't boot a Windows
> off a CDROM like you can boot Linux !).
Exacly. This is why a special bootable partition is needed. You've
got the point.
P.S. "Bli Nedder", I'll make a summary of the other responses when
I'll have time.
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