Hello, and don't be affraid!
If you are using Linux/UNIX or a Mac User, then you are on the outside, and QUITE FREE TO DO AS YOU WISH!
If you are using M.$. Windoz, then you are in the middle and unknowingly trained to pay an exorbitant price and to be content with what you are provided and if not, then conditioned to pay for even more (like antivirus, office packages, etc.)! Also unknowingly content to be in the middle of the crossfire, and worse yet, by buying extras, FUND IT! This conditioning is through several employed means: monoplozied availability via unfair business practices (some manufacturers are tiring of this and just now starting to offer alternatives), mass advertising, peer pressure, etc. All for a product that is "Pretty Good!" Now, how about better?
On the outside, we are exuberant with what we can SHARE AND MAKE! And FREE of PRICE! With M.$. Windoz, Sun Solaris (which went open source & M.$.'s oldest competitor), and other proprietary software you ALSO buy a license (EULA or End User License Agreement) FORBIDDING YOU TO COPY AND SHARE! Our freedom comes under our own licenses granting this freedom, to EVERYONE ELSE, wether they may contribute, in work or funds, to the cause or NOT! This is the freedom of the GPL and the GNU.
The initial spark of this freedom came from Richard Stallman, of the Free Software Foundation, and further refined by the Open Source Community, as the Open Source Definition, from the Debian Project by Bruce Perens, in particular.
And quite frankly, even though M.$. may have some advantages (which are quickly fleeting), what we have is so much better, in speed, security, reliability, & extremely fast & effective updating! - WK, 3, November 2007
Welcome to OUR WORLD -
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