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I don't buy it. I really think there should be an awareness of just how badly Microsoft is picking people's pockets and restricting their freedoms. I'll take myself as an example here -- I used to be a die-hard Windows user ten years ago, and I wasn't even aware that there were alternatives. Then again, of course, Linux was nowhere close to ready for the desktop back then. But starting in late 2002, I learned some things about Windows XP that I had a real problem with -- namely the WGA. Not that I'm advocating software piracy, mind you, but when I read that some hardware upgrades would cause you to fail activation, I had a problem with that, since I've just about always had to upgrade hardware in order for Windows to run at an acceptable speed, and I just felt that that was complete nonsense, and so that's when I began to explore the world of Linux. Today, I'm a devoted Linux fan, running PCLinuxOS, and I don't intend to return to Windows -- EVER.
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