Verily I say unto thee, that The Ghost In The Machine spake thusly:
> On Sep 24, 9:14 pm, "DFS" <nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> That's funny: Vista "fundamentally does not work" but in 1.5 years
>> of availability has garnered
You misspelled "force-fed by racketeering"
>> Linux: loses again. And again. And again.
It's hard to win against government protected gangsters.
> Not that Windows works all that well from a technical viewpoint. It
> simply works well enough so that people are satisfied
IME they're not, it's just that most of them don't even know there's an
alternative ... not that they even *have* an alternative at the PC
checkout, most of the time.
> that is all that's required in a corporatocracy/laissez-faire
> capitalistic/ fascist system,
> as opposed to a Utopia.
I'd be quite happy with just "democracy", assuming there's any left in
the world.
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K.
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