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Re: [News] [Linux] NZ Herald on the Recent Linux Win

  • Subject: Re: [News] [Linux] NZ Herald on the Recent Linux Win
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 19:46:56 +0100
  • In-reply-to: <14039496.vz3xpKssXE@schestowitz.com>
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> Linux gets one over on Windows
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | An ideal scenario that could emerge is that use of Ubuntu could
> | shave a couple of hundred dollars off the price of a new laptop
> | for users who won't miss the extra features Vista has to offer

Just out of curiosity, what are these "extra features" that are
apparently missing in Linux, in terms of actual functionality rather
than brand names, and also in terms of something that benefits the
actual user rather than the vendor?

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

,----
| I realize that a lot of people see this as a fight. But I tell you,
| those people are missing the point.  Weâre not fighting.  At least
| the useful people arenât fighting.  No good code ever comes out of
| people who do things because they are afraid, or because they hate.
|
| - Linus Torvalds. http://tinyurl.com/eumwb (Groklaw)
`----

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