re: Upgrading to Second Edition
Thursday, April 9, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(3936 messages posted)
dantheman wrote:
[G]ee[,] gewg[,] [they're] really expensive[.]
|[I] would tell you a better way but we not allowed to tell you in this fourms[,]
|[I] think[.] [S]o sorry[.]
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|[It] is [a] shame that those people are ripping people off[.]
We may quibble about whether abandonware should carry _any_ price,
but, in general, people who *choose* to use payware should expect to pay for that.
That said, anyone with a BitTorrent client can evade most Intellectual Property laws.
These days, however, it's possible to get a BETTER operating system completely FREE
**without** violating any laws:
cache of https://shipit.kubuntu.org/
...and (unlike the M$ junk), the numerous variants (aka "distros") of that OS
*come* with a scad of applications which are also Free Software.
...and, aside from the huge array of included FREE desktop apps, e.g.
cache of http://www.geocities.com/firsttimelinux/trying_it_out/applications.html
cache of http://news.softpedia.com/news/First-Look-KNOPPIX-5-3-0-80626.shtml
as well as the powerful and fundamental GNU tools,
cache of http://www.gnu.org#content
the mountains of useful apps that aren't *already* included on the CD[1]
cache of http://process-history.co.uk/osswin.htm#graphics
can be found, downloaded, installed, and updated very simply.
cache of
http://wirelessmike.blogspot.com/2005/02/ubuntu-its-all-about-repositories.html
...and your FREE OS will still run most of your old Windoze-compatible apps:
http://www.google.com/search?q=WineHQ
In short, paying to jump thru the M$ hoops (or doing things that break laws)
to get an ancient closed-source payware OS seems pretty foolish
when a modern FREE equivalent is readily available.
[1] That link also shows that you can even run Free Software apps under Windoze
to prepare for the transition to a Free Software OS.
There's even a Linux-like tool to make it easy
--and to prepare you for the ease of getting Free Software apps under Linux.
cache of http://windows-get.sourceforge.net
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