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[zman <zman AT shell.neverwhere.org>]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Sil Greene wrote:
>  But Apple's pricing and sales practices are not consumer
> friendly; from some perspectives they out-proprietize Microsoft, and
> *that* is scary.

Well at least they adhere to industry standards unlike MS..

> Now, all that said, I have considered picking up a used G4 machine just
> for the hardware, and running some nice Linux or BSD variant on it.  The
> beauty of that hardware, without the painful new-hardware-price or
> gawd-must-I-deal-with-Apple software.  :)

My 3+ year old 667Mhz powerbook is still way more useable than the PC 
laptop that I was supplied at work, and it's less than a year old. TCO is 
way less...

Scott H. Zekanis
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