Microsoft Vista or Linux？Is Vista forcing users to go Linux?
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Posted by Michael as 开源笔记| Linux
看来下面这篇，真的是感觉Linux大潮势不可当，可是要把Linux用在桌面办公，还不敢说更待何时……
"有很多理由来说明为什么Windows用户转而使用Linux，但正如知名记者Charlie Demerjian所言对于PC硬件发烧友也许最重要的就是Vista的重新激活。Demerjian没有用过Linux，他认为微软的愚蠢错误使得它搬了石头砸了自己的脚。微软的许可，激活以及强行的支持DRM的做法是其最短视的行为。" --[来自Solidot.org]
Is Vista forcing users to go Linux?
http://www.linux-watch.com/
There are many reasons to switch to Linux, but well-known technology journalist Charlie Demerjian reminds us of one of particular importance to PC hardware junkies in an Inquirer article: Vista reactivation.
Demerjian is no Linux fan. He wrote, "I will say that none of my desktops run Linux now. I am a marginally disgruntled Windows user that could become quite gruntled if Microsoft backed off on its stupidities."
Microsoft's chief stupidity, as far as Demerjian is concerned, is its "licensing and the activation/DRM infection." In particular, "Microsoft, in possibly the most shortsighted move in the company's history, decided to lock Vista down to the first PC it is installed to and not allow you to move it legally. If you call it up, whine and lie, you can socially engineer a few reactivations, but technically this is a license violation. I won't do that."
The long and short of it is that if you change out your motherboard, or make other unspecified changes to your hardware, Vista will stop working. For users like Demerjian, who are always testing or playing with new PC hardware, this makes Vista the next best thing to unusable.
To legally keep up with Vista, Demerjian estimates it would cost him $57 a day to keep Vista running on his systems. Besides his main work machine, he has seven other work PCs "all with legitimate XP licenses. Vista will work for none of them. Ubuntu, Redhat, Mandriva and Xandros will, while Novell is not an option any more because of patent stupidities."
For Demerjian, "It simply is not worth it anymore, I can't use Vista." Before now, "I had no reason to switch, but Microsoft has given me the choice of becoming a criminal or going to Linux."
So he, for one, will be switching to Linux in a few days.
"有很多理由来说明为什么Windows用户转而使用Linux，但正如知名记者Charlie Demerjian所言对于PC硬件发烧友也许最重要的就是Vista的重新激活。Demerjian没有用过Linux，他认为微软的愚蠢错误使得它搬了石头砸了自己的脚。微软的许可，激活以及强行的支持DRM的做法是其最短视的行为。" --[来自Solidot.org]
Is Vista forcing users to go Linux?
http://www.linux-watch.com/
There are many reasons to switch to Linux, but well-known technology journalist Charlie Demerjian reminds us of one of particular importance to PC hardware junkies in an Inquirer article: Vista reactivation.
Demerjian is no Linux fan. He wrote, "I will say that none of my desktops run Linux now. I am a marginally disgruntled Windows user that could become quite gruntled if Microsoft backed off on its stupidities."
Microsoft's chief stupidity, as far as Demerjian is concerned, is its "licensing and the activation/DRM infection." In particular, "Microsoft, in possibly the most shortsighted move in the company's history, decided to lock Vista down to the first PC it is installed to and not allow you to move it legally. If you call it up, whine and lie, you can socially engineer a few reactivations, but technically this is a license violation. I won't do that."
The long and short of it is that if you change out your motherboard, or make other unspecified changes to your hardware, Vista will stop working. For users like Demerjian, who are always testing or playing with new PC hardware, this makes Vista the next best thing to unusable.
To legally keep up with Vista, Demerjian estimates it would cost him $57 a day to keep Vista running on his systems. Besides his main work machine, he has seven other work PCs "all with legitimate XP licenses. Vista will work for none of them. Ubuntu, Redhat, Mandriva and Xandros will, while Novell is not an option any more because of patent stupidities."
For Demerjian, "It simply is not worth it anymore, I can't use Vista." Before now, "I had no reason to switch, but Microsoft has given me the choice of becoming a criminal or going to Linux."
So he, for one, will be switching to Linux in a few days.
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