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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: [announcement] SYSAPI and SYSSVC for Windows
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amado.alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt> wrote:
: [Windows vs. Linux]
: 
: This is OT,,

and it omits the crucial factors:
1/ What graphics system does your laptop have?
2/ Who has written the graphics driver for Windows?
3/ Did they have to keep the graphics card programming interface a secret?

(I have had a "cheap" Thinkpad and no graphics problems with plain
Debian.)

: Just to prove why Windows is an *excelent* system--except for price.

Hm, evaluating systems by the existence of a functioning graphics
control program?

: But now
: it seems you'll have to pay for Linux too.
: RedHat
: starts at 179 dollars I think. So there is still hope for AdaOS ;-)

Free Software is about Freedom, not price, as is frequently repeated,
but maybe not frequently enough :-)


-- Georg