From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Geo"  wrote in message
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>> > I think the DRM and copy protection are going to be the main
>> > reason
>>
>> For knowledgeable people, sure, but Joe Average and his Aunt May won't
> know
>> what it is anyway.
>
> How many people bought W95, W2K, and XP? They are not newbies anymore.

Yes they are. People who've used computers for twenty years still don't
understand where their files went when they pull their USB stick.

> And when they find they can't move their paid for music from their old
> machine to new what do you think they will tell their friends?

"You need to buy this new service from MS that will allow you to copy
your files to your new computer, it's really cool and you don't really have
to do anything, just click a few buttons. And it's only $49".


>> Well Linux for sure won't be a factor unless Vista delays another 5 years
>
> Apple didn't lose the desktop market overnight, it was a slow steady
> erosion
> of their customer base, discontinuation of products and rampart copy
> protection that knocked them down. Same is happening to windows, more and
> more people will not move, a significant number stuck with W2K, more will
> stick with XP. Course deactivation might force them to move, we'll see how
> that works out soon enough.

I'm really hoping it will backfire on MS big time. Like, seriously BIG
TIME! I've always hated the paranoid copy-protection stuff, in every format
it comes; dongles, phoning home, automatic validations, "fixed"
disks and shit like that.


>> And it sucks. I wish people like whoever it was that came up with that
>> idiotic shaking and wobbling windows in Linux thing, that we just saw the
>> video of, would dig into the important stuff - how to make wifi just
>> plain
>> work, and how to make file & printer sharing just plain work, basic
>> things
>> like that. Then we'd have a game. But, still, after all the years of
> "Linux
>> is finally ready for desktop", the clue is still somewhat missing and
> we're
>> still fiddling with bash and etc and all that crap, and MS knows it damn
>> well and is laughing as they go by.
>
> Man, you definitely need to download knoppix and stick the CD in your
> thinkpad.

I've got it in my toolpack. Now if I could only get it to write to my USB
stick, print to a shared printer on a windoze system, and use shared
folders from a windows machine, then it would be of some use the next time
there's a windoze machine gone bonkers.


Antti Kurenniemi

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