On Friday 09 January 2004 4:39 am, Vaughn Treude wrote:

> So far I've avoided going to XP on principle, but I admit that the windows
> XP registration scheme is, so far, mostly just a hassle, but it's still a
> hassle, which makes Linux look better.  Having installed both Windows and
> Linux on many occasions, I consider them to be about of equal difficulty,
> with each having their own strengths and weaknesses.  The reason Windows
> "seems" easier is because most people get it preinstalled, and rather than
> upgrading, a lot of folks just buy a new computer.

Boy I sure would like to know how figure linux is just as easy to install as 
XP.  Especially since you have to go fetch and install your own NVIDIA 
drivers which XP does automatically.

> This is one thing I strongly disagree with - the "if you're doing nothing
> wrong you've got nothing to hide" argument.  It's less of a big deal with a
> private company like MS than with the government, but it's still a problem.
> (And these days, most private companies turn over every scrap of our
> personal info to the government without any kind of warrant or anything,
> with the ridiculous exuse that they're "fighting terrorism.")  Privacy is
> one of the things that keeps  our society relatively free, because if the
> big guys CAN control your life, they WILL.

Privacy doesn't destroy terroism,  it promotes it.

-- 
Richard L. Proctor
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