[svlug] Tri Huynh is a good guy (WAS something else, sic)

[Christian Einfeldt]

On 10/19/07, Tri Huynh <trihuynhdinh at gmail.com> wrote:
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> If i goes to best buy and buy a card for my Linux box, i have to check it
> in advanced if it works on my box.


That is one example of what Munich Mayor Christian Ude was referring to when
he spoke of expensing the cost of monopoly.  The reason that you have to do
that is because Microsoft has a monopoly.

However if i gonna buy a card for my XP box, i can just pick anything in
> best buy


Again, that is because Microsoft has a monopoly.  My primary objection to
Microsoft is that it is a monopoly that is taking away our freedom.  All I
am asking for is a free market.  In fact, the Mayor of Munich makes that
point, too.  He says, "Wir sind Freunde der Marktwirdschaft", meaning "we
are friends of the free market.  That is all I am asking for.

and have more change that it will work without any problems. I think the
> issue is most manufactures don't care much for the Linux users as much as
> the Windows users. You can see on the cover of the box they will have like
> "Windows XP compatible" but never put Linux there.


Another hallmark of the Microsoft monopoly.  That is exactly what we are
working for, Tri.  We are working for the day when the GNU Linux install
base is large enough that there is a truly free market.  Currently, that
market is broken.
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