[CS-FSLUG] As if that many really care, but here it is anyway.

[Aaron Lehmann]

You know, if such a system were put into practice, and it involved
someone at MS being responsible for keeping the patches and the updates
working, and making sure my computer always worked with it's
peripherals, and maybe had a centralized online place to buy video
games, my response would be, "Where do I sign up?"

Similarly with my Linux server.  I hate adminning.  I hate having to
make sure the configuration is just so.  I'm a user, not an
administrator.  For those of you on this list that enjoy adminning, and
possibly need some extra money, contact me privately, and we'll talk
about what your monthly rate would be to take over the job of being root
on my machine.

Aaron Lehmann

On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 06:32:57PM -0800, Christopher Rose wrote:
> Fred, there is an almost simple way to do that. It is called "monthly system registration". All Gates and crew has to do is write into the system a subroutine that once a month requires you to register your system. You would have to call in, give your credit card number to pay the registration fee and get a new registration number that the computer would then verify via a website named something to the effect of "verify.user.microsoft.org/verify.asp" (or something very similiar). That is all it would take. And of course you know that there would be something about that in the EULA (which nobody ever usually reads to begin) about this process. That basically would make it legal. Maybe I am being over simplistic, but that is how it could happen. I just hope that if it does, people will be ready to embrace Linux and BSD more fully.
> 
> 
> Christopher
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fred A. Miller" <fmiller at lightlink.com>
> To: "A Christian virtual Free Software and Linux Users Group." <Christiansource at ofb.biz>
> Subject: Re: [CS-FSLUG] As if that many really care, but here it is anyway.
> Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 13:30:25 -0400
> 
> > 
> > On Saturday 23 July 2005 12:21 pm, Christopher Rose wrote:
> > > Sounds like a lot of fluff from team Gates. I somehow suspect that it will
> > > only be a matter of time before one will have to pay a monthly fee to use
> > > windows (that is in addition the cost for internet).
> > 
> > IF they can make such a FORCED arrangement, they will do just that.
> > 
> > Fred
> > 
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> > our software, Never! We do have undocumented added
> > features, that you will find amusing, at no added cost
> > to you, at this time.
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