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Subject: Re: WinXP OS - Scorpions, Corporations & democracy
Name:
 Connie
Date: 1/21/2002 10:52:20 AM (GMT-7)
IP Address: 209.86.57.15
In Reply to: WinXP OS - Scorpions, Corporations & democracy posted by
booly
Message:
I am the oldie on this board, so I've been through alot of things others haven't. I don't like corporations, governments, scorpions or whatever evading my "home". I understand rules in the public domain, but when you pass my door into my home, keep in mind it is my home.
I got into this discussion once concering killing of bugs. And one guy said no you shouldn't kill them, take them out and let them go. My thought was, trust me a spider is in my house, I will kill him. No if's, and 's or but's about it. On the converse, if I were to get into the spider's "web/home" what is the spider going to do to me? He/she is going to make a nice meal out of me, no if's, and's or but's about it. Fair is fair.When in Rome.............
We're not talking about just software here. Basic rights on the whole. Someone enters your home and robs you and you try and stop them by force and injure them, they can sue you. Huh? Who's bright idea was that? Smokers have to abide by the rules in public, but they should be able to do as they please at home. Now they want to extend into the home with rules. Bullshit! I maintain if I paid the price once, that's enough. What I do with it in my home is quite frankly none of their business as long as I don't copy it and resell it. Be that software or anything with copyright or patent regulations on them. Like you said if you buy a book and loan it to a friend, the publisher isn't going to sue you, nor is the writer of the book. What is the basic difference? Are they trying to say that software and music is more importent than Books and authors? What about art work that you buy and display in a gallery? Some things are just downright silly. And this paying for an os or proggie for each and every machine you have is pure BS. If I have it it's going on all machines I run in this house. Tough.....at $100 to $200 an OS that's enough folks. Same for games, like the SIMS I play, $40, $40, $30, $30 through the original and 3 expansion packs and they want me to pay the same all over again to put it on Sonny's machine? HaHaHaHaHaHaHa! No way 'jose! They are a bat short in the bellfry.
However the last two are not very easy to copy, Safe Disk 2 and that annoys me no end since I like to have a backup of all software I own and use it and store the original.Annoys me I can't copy Annie's for her. She has a 4 year old sister and 1 year old brother.......agggh! Expensive if they get into the CD's.
The crux is money and greed. They are afraid they will lose profits. Uh doesn't Gates have enough $$$$ ? Doesn't seem to me if he's worth over a billion that he's lost that much profit. If I were corporate America I would raise hell over what they are charged to put in these systems. Some are going Linux because of M$ goughing them.
When is enough enough? They got off too light in the Anti-Trust action. Kissed on both cheeks and patted on the ass. Was it a monopoly and pricefixing etc...yes. Still there, bigger than life and more so in XP. Now they have added more.
Am I a rabble rouser? No, I just want basic rights and freedoms in the realm of my home.
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