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Re: [LUG] OT: Windows XP

 

Philip Hudson wrote:
> [MT] (Meta Topic): I don't think this is OT at all. To be clear, when
> you say "migrate", you don't mean "upgrade to a more recent release of
> MS Windows", you mean "migrate to GNU/Linux or other free software".
> Right? Otherwise it's not *off*-topic, it's *anti*-topic. And that
> would never do.

At this point it probably doesn't matter to me what they do, as long as
they get somewhere sensible, so it doesn't become a burden to me going
forward.

Yes, I'd prefer them to migrate to free software. But there is a free
software implementation (ragged I suspect) of the Windows APIs, and
although it is "free software" I'm not sure I'd be much happier if they
went there, since the only goal of going there would be to save cash, and
still run proprietary software.








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