2010 February 26 archive at Robert Pogson

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M$ Loses XP downgrade lawsuit

Published by Robert Pogson February 26th, 2010 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

Well, the headline at ComputerWorld has it the other way around but you do not win when your customers sue you. The fact that the customer paid more to avoid your product than it normally cost to buy your defective product is not earning points in mind-share. The customer could not prove that M$ profited by the shenanigans but we know the partnership between M$ and the OEMs who push M$’s products profits every time the customer shells out more.

Customers, wake up! If you don’t like M$, stop buying their products. If the OEM forces you to buy M$, buy from another OEM and use FLOSS. Use GNU/Linux.

- Robert Pogson

My Mission

My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.