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• The title of this article is misleading. The patent is frivolous and shows the failings of the US patent system.
  
  The patent has nothing to do with the structure of the saved document (ODF, DOCX) but with the content of the document.
  
  It is like someone patenting a word template to create a Fax cover and then suing when MS includes a template to do the same thing.
  
  I am a developer and I still think that software patents are ridiculous. I am also a Free software (FLOSS) user and advocate and in this case I must be consistent. MS should have won this one. In reply to: "Microsoft's 'Custom XML' patent suit could put ODF at risk"

  August 13, 2009

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• Wrong facts
  I don't know where you got that fact but it's wrong.
  
  I'm sorry to contradict you, but in my experience commercial Linux distributions include more drivers out of the box than windows. Every time I install windows from a shrink wrapped license, I must install the printer drivers, video drivers, USB drivers, Mother board nifty features drivers, CD Rom drivers, wireless drivers, etc, from separate CDs provided by the component vendor.
  
  If you consider OEM computers, then OEM Linux includes all the required drivers as well as Windows.

  January 24, 2008

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• Serious and honest advice
  I got an awesome 17" ViewSonic monitor for 25 dollars.
  
  Yes, it was used. You know what? I can live with that.
  
  Where? a wholesale computer store open to the public, no special price, advertised in the paper, they had lots of monitors.
  
  Go check with any refurbisher or recycler in your area, If you didn't know this, you'll be glad you did.
  
  Really this is serious and honest advise.

  January 24, 2008

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• $50 plus? can you add?
  Plus $60 Antivirus
  Plus $40 every year there after for Antivirus upgrades.
  Plus $400 Office suite
  Plus Office suite upgrades every now and then
  Plus $60 every year for computer Tune ups
  Plus...
  etc.
  
  I'm sure you can add, so keep adding.

  January 24, 2008

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• Don't take this as a personal attack
  How many average users do you know?
  My experience is that the average user today knows how to do the two or three things he/she was tought how to do. Even opeople at offices that work with computers 80% of the time.
  
  His mom is the average user target for this computer.
  
  I'm glad for you if you live in a region where the average user does video editing and plays high performance games or does windows development (I can't think of anything else you would be unable to do in these computers).
  
  Most users will buy the hype of the TV adds for a computer that can do all kinds of neat things that they themselves will never do. I guess they are the same people that buys the latest "magic cooker" stuff that cooks delicious meals that they will never cook.
  
  Different users have different needs, most home users will be more than happy with this computer, specially the average first time user for which price tag has been a barrier to entry.

  January 24, 2008

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• You are showing your ignorance...
  ... but that can be fixed.
  
  If you live in a country with stupid laws you can legally pay for most proprietary codecs in Linux.
  
  There may be some codecs or formats that are not available, and How is that Linux's fault? the one to blame is the provider of the codec.
  
  So enough FUD for now.
  
  Any other argument?

  January 24, 2008

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• Yes, I'm sure they're dumb
  You are a Mac lover, so I guess that after you bought your mac you went to check all the Windows sofware you could load, isn't it?
  
  Oh, no wait! you are smarter than "those other" Wal-mart people. right?
  
  Maybe they will see the loads of free Open source quite fine applications already included in their package manager. Maybe, just maybe.

  January 24, 2008

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• That's not what he meant
  He meant value for the vendor!
  
  Sell a computer with MS, you'll get a client comming back to upgrade the HW, to clean all the viruses, to "tune up" when it gets slow, etc.
  
  That my friend is value! (for the vendor)

  January 24, 2008

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• Try to think
  Major vendors are just starting to sell them, they are still not at traditional Computer stores, so, for most users, Vista and MAC are still the only options.
  
  That's why this news IS news, because they are starting to appear AND that they are sold out indicates that addoption MAY start to happen.
  
  I don't know how you can equate "sold (out) at wal-mart and sears" with generaly available. Make an effort, think, and you'll see that those two sentences are not equivalent.

  January 24, 2008

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• I agree in General
  I agree in general with the statement that these computers are usable by the average user.
  
  I disagree with the tone that seems to imply that Linux "Is OK for lesser things".
  
  Linux when preinstalled and when using the appropriate hardware can be as functional as other OSs. Of course not all OSs are the same so some will be better at some things some will be better at others, but that's true with anything. There is always a tradeoff.

  January 24, 2008

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