I'm not talking from a linux standpoint of view or anything yaar.
I'm talking in the view of general consumer rights. Like Rahul Gandhi said, I'm not talking as a congressmen but as a youth of this nation. Although it's not going to affect us(congress party), it's still in the interest of our nation(technology world).
If such things continue, then it's going to affect us the same way windows live crap for games is affecting us today.
Hence, I'm saying this in the general consumer interest and not in favour of open source.
Consumer Rights ? You talk about rights when the very time you buy some product with such a license you end up giving up all your rights.
Till now, MS has been pursuing practices which abuse their monopoly.
But do you honestly think that this can continue for a long time to come ? Look at the way US can no longer assume its living in its own uni-polar world. Similarly, MS can't hold monopoly for a long time. The world is changing. For the good. Apple is getting looked into more and more by corporates, while Linux is getting looked into by personal/power users. Companies like ATI, AMD, nVidia, etc which were formerly exclusively MS oriented are shifting their focus to other platforms so that they can gain trust of overall market.
Take a better look at the mini-note market today. Unlike the Xbox live, which affected several gamers, the mini-note case is a bit different.
The original idea was to push in 200$ subnotebooks for the masses, which later went up to 400$ and now we are staring at 600$ subnotebooks, which definitely don't make sense for these money concious people when there already exist 500$ full blown notebooks. In the current avatar, these 600$ "netbooks" powered by the so-called "low cost" Atom processor are becomming nothing more than lifestyle gadgets just like the already existing tablet PCs, PDAs, etc. I seriously doubt this would impact the original market the products were intended for. And once you get to this range, full blown notebooks at the same cost suddenly become vista capable. Hence XP makes no sense at all.
Finally, what I am trying to say is this: MS has being doing lots of evil. But neither is their evil expected to continue for a long time nor will this particular event affect as many people as expected by many here. This particular action of MS can be seen as a last ditch attempt to avoid pirated windows xp copies continuing to exist in the future, cut the market share of linux and at the same time, ensure that vista still sells. This showcases the pathetic dying monopoly MS is in the process of becomming.
I too am not pro OSS here, I am just talking realistic.
This action should be condemned and boycotted, but at the same time, breathe easier than usual since this time MS didn't hurt us that badly.
Yea.consumers are the one who are getting hit,both hardware manufacturers and M$ is still making truckloads of $$$.
Thats true, but its still the duty of every customer to ensure that such practices are not allowed to continue. For this, boycotting is the only solution.
and the morons who says 'don't buy if you don't like' please tell me whats the alternative left?
Er... Linux ? Isn't Acer also producing a 100$ cheaper and SSD enabled linux version ?
And you can also buy full blown notebooks at the same price.
Monopolist market requires the company to have high transparency and high moral standards which M$ obviously lacks and M$ fanboys won't ever understand.
+1. No arguement there.
whats next in line?Hell Price the bloody XP 3x more than Vista and see who still buys it(I know what M$ fanbois will say 'Its M$'s bloody OS,they can price it whatever they damn well please'.Losers.
+1 again
I've been following yours and chandru.in's posts and its clearly you who needs to lift the table and find something! Even a first time reader will understand what he's trying to say!
I'm neither taking his side nor yours, just suggesting you to read the posts again.
Exactly. I think iMav is being slightly hypocritic here. First, he and GX bashed apple for doing a similar thing with iPhone store. Now, when MS does the same, they say "it doesn't matter" ?
infra_red_dude said:
The greatest impact will be on a market like India, where we consumers haf little choice in portables.
Still, that doesn't stop us from looking ahead for a better future, hopefully without such egoistic monopolistic companies.
why do you always think that you are the *MOST* important person in this forum?!?! 
lolz...
