Messages in this thread | | | From | Jesse Pollard <> | Subject | Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU! | Date | Sun, 1 Jul 2001 15:03:45 -0500 |
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On Sun, 01 Jul 2001, Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote: >On Sunday 01 July 2001 13:48, you wrote: >> Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote: >> > I'm going to take a break from lurking to point out that I am not >> > dissatisfied with Windows. It has its uses, as do Linux (and NetBSD, and >> > Solaris, and the other operating systems I have installed at home). >> > Frankly, I don't have a problem with Microsoft. If I don't like their >> > product, I'm free to choose not to use it. >> >> You do understand, don't you, that microsoft is >> working frantically to take that choice away from >> you? it's easy to sit back and say it doesn't affect >> you, til one day you realize that you can't connect >> to your ISP unless you are running windows xp. >> >> Then it hits you, and it's too late. > >In that case, I have the following options: >1) Start my own ISP
Only if the upstream provider doesn't require you to use windows.
>2) Use Windows XP >3) Not use Windows XP and not be able to use my current ISP >4) Go to a different ISP
You may not be able to find another. It took me a year. I gave up. I was fortunate that Verio doesn't care what you have... though if you use the dialup or basic dsl, MS is it, or no real support.
>I'll just have to decide which I value more. As long as I won't be killed >for using a different OS, I still have a choice.
No, but you might be forced out of a job.
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