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To: ari-freedom
One of the funniest responses on the blog site...

You are kidding arent you ?

Are you saying that this linux can run on a computer without windows underneath it, at all ? 
As in, without a boot disk, without any drivers, and without any services ?

That sounds preposterous to me.

If it were true (and I doubt it), then companies would be selling computers without a windows. 
This clearly is not happening, so there must be some error in your calculations. I hope you 
realise that windows is more than just Office ? Its a whole system that runs the computer from 
start to finish, and that is a very difficult thing to acheive. A lot of people dont realise this.

Microsoft just spent $9 billion and many years to create Vista, so it does not sound 
reasonable that some new alternative could just snap into existence overnight like that. 
It would take billions of dollars and a massive effort to achieve. IBM tried, and spent a 
huge amount of money developing OS/2 but could never keep up with Windows. Apple tried 
to create their own system for years, but finally gave up recently and moved to Intel and Microsoft.

Its just not possible that a freeware like the Linux could be extended to the point where 
it runs the entire computer fron start to finish, without using some of the more critical 
parts of windows. Not possible.

I think you need to re-examine your assumptions.

I laughed my arse off.

/johnny

81 posted on 12/10/2008 7:32:53 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (God Bless us all, each, and every one.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Well, gee, Unix has been around since 1969 and Linux since about ‘92 or so. Where do they get this “overnight” business? I guess it must seem like magic if the poster is technologically ignorant.

Yeah, some of those posts are just too funny.


82 posted on 12/10/2008 7:36:31 PM PST by Laptop_Ron (Jindal / Palin '12)
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To: JRandomFreeper

This person would really not like ReactOS


93 posted on 12/11/2008 7:22:15 AM PST by midmoschmo
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