Spam ? - Re: An interesting view of the hidden cost of Vista

[David A Aitcheson - KB3EFS]

Frank, and Andre,

Might I suggest that you take a look at the systems available at
http://www.system76.com and just forget the "Bill Gates pocket lining
tax" altogether?  If we all did that it would be a very "volume-ous"
statement.

BTW - The primary person behind the OS that is on those machines is
none other that one Mark Shuttlesworth (sp?) AKA Space Tourist #2.

73 - Dave - KB3EFS


Frank Gentges wrote:
> André,
> 
> I cannot summon the mental strength to read this from end to end just 
> yet.  Perhaps I should as it looks like a detailed effort to ferret out 
> the facts about Vista.
> 
> However, some of the headings and partial scanning suggests Vista is not 
> a good operating system to run my kind of things like signal processing 
> or Software Defined Radio under.
> 
> As a matter of fact, it does not look like a good system to run a word 
> processor under.  Way too many processor cycles seem to be devoted to 
> solving HD TV problems I don't yet know I have.  Why should I be forced 
> to go out and buy a supercharged 3+ gig gaming machine just so I can run 
> Microsoft's latest word processing package?
> 
> I have better options.
> 
> Wallet Stuck in Pocket
> 
> Frank K0BRA
> 
> Andre Kesteloot wrote:
> 
>> http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt
>>