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Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating?

From Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating?
Date 2012-06-13 08:51 -0700
Message-ID <CBFE050B.3223%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> (permalink)
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On 6/13/12 8:24 AM, in article a3rpkvFiqjU1@mid.individual.net, "Ian
Hilliard" <nospam@nospam.org> wrote:

>>> This is however the wonderful thing about Linux. If your favourite
>>> Distro decides to go all Windows 8 on you, you can find a new favourite
>>> distro. When Microsoft goes all Windows 8 on you, you just have to
>>> suck it.
>> 
>> 
>> No, you can use Win7, Win Vista, Win XP, Win Server 2008, Win Server
>> 2003, Win 2000, etc.
>> 
> 
> Where are you going to get a legal license for WinVista, WinXP, Win2k,
> etc..? Or, are you promoting piracy?

Of course if you want to move to an OS with a cost associated you have to
pay for the OS license.  This does not mean that once you buy the license
you are stuck using it... you can move to another OS!

> When Microsoft stops selling Win7, are you planning on illegally
> installing that on your next PC? Where do you intend to get the drivers
> from?

He never said anything about doing anything illegal.  You made that up.

>> All are better desktop options than any Linux distro.
> 
> It is a matter of opinion as to whether it is better. It is an opinion,
> which I do not share.

It is an opinion, however, that is shared by the vast majority of desktop
users... but you are right that it is just an opinion.  If you include not
just preferences of what people like, though, and add goals such as
productivity, error reduction, etc., then you can find literature which
supports one environment being - in general - better than another.  Even
then, though, there are differences in how the desktops are used and even if
a study shows that on average X has such and such affect, it is possible
this is not true for every individual.

-- 
cc being proved wrong about his stats BS: <http://goo.gl/1aYrP>
7 simple questions cc will *never* answer: <http://goo.gl/cNBzu>
cc again pretends to be knowledgeable about things he is clueless about.

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Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? Ian Hilliard <nospam@nospam.org> - 2012-06-11 17:10 +0200
  Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? "Henk & Ingrid" <Henk_Ingrid@nospam.eu> - 2012-06-11 22:25 +0200
    Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? Foster <frankfoster50@yahoo.com> - 2012-06-11 16:41 -0400
    Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? Ian Hilliard <nospam@nospam.com> - 2012-06-12 08:05 +0200
      Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2012-06-11 23:18 -0700
  Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2012-06-11 14:42 -0700
    Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? Ian Hilliard <nospam@nospam.com> - 2012-06-12 08:08 +0200
      Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2012-06-11 23:17 -0700
        Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? Ian Hilliard <nospam@nospam.com> - 2012-06-12 08:34 +0200
          Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2012-06-11 23:59 -0700
            Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? Ian Hilliard <nospam@nospam.org> - 2012-06-12 19:57 +0200
              Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2012-06-12 14:05 -0400
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? MelissA <melis@a.com> - 2012-06-12 20:34 +0200
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2012-06-12 11:37 -0700
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2012-06-12 14:31 -0500
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2012-06-12 14:34 -0600
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2012-06-12 16:19 -0700
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2012-06-13 00:48 -0600
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2012-06-13 11:40 -0500
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2012-06-13 12:24 -0500
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2012-06-13 10:25 -0700
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2012-06-13 12:09 -0600
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xzoozy.com> - 2012-06-12 15:57 -0400
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? Foster <frankfoster50@yahoo.com> - 2012-06-12 16:11 -0400
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? William Poaster <wp@induh-vidual.net> - 2012-06-12 22:54 +0100
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? Ian Hilliard <nospam@nospam.org> - 2012-06-13 17:24 +0200
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2012-06-13 08:51 -0700
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2012-06-13 11:42 -0500
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2012-06-13 19:02 +0200
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2012-06-13 22:31 -0400
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2012-06-14 05:14 +0200
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2012-06-14 12:50 -0400
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2012-06-14 20:20 +0200
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? Ian Hilliard <nospam@nospam.org> - 2012-06-14 21:36 +0200
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2012-06-14 15:02 -0500
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2012-06-14 18:46 -0400
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2012-06-14 18:44 -0400
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? Ian Hilliard <nospam@nospam.org> - 2012-06-15 08:36 +0200
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2012-06-15 13:51 +0200
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2012-06-15 07:48 -0500
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? Foster <frankfoster50@yahoo.com> - 2012-06-15 08:59 -0400
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2012-06-15 08:26 -0700
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? Ian Hilliard <nospam@nospam.org> - 2012-06-14 19:06 +0200
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xzoozy.com> - 2012-06-14 16:55 -0400
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2012-06-15 11:29 -0400
              Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2012-06-12 15:50 -0700
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? Ian Hilliard <nospam@nospam.org> - 2012-06-13 17:19 +0200
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2012-06-13 10:39 -0500
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2012-06-13 08:47 -0700
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2012-06-13 17:49 +0200
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2012-06-13 09:10 -0700
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2012-06-13 18:30 +0200
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2012-06-13 09:48 -0700
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? Ian Hilliard <nospam@nospam.org> - 2012-06-13 20:56 +0200
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? Ian Hilliard <nospam@nospam.org> - 2012-06-13 19:04 +0200
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? William Poaster <wp@induh-vidual.net> - 2012-06-13 23:21 +0100
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2012-06-13 19:07 +0200
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? William Poaster <wp@induh-vidual.net> - 2012-06-13 23:29 +0100
                Re: Ok, why is Ubuntu not updating? none of your buisiness <none@none.com> - 2012-06-13 16:06 -0400

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