[Mageia-discuss] Linux under threat ?

[Max Quarterpleen]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati <
renaud at olgiati-in-paraguay.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday 30 Oct 2012 08:31 my mailbox was graced by a message from
> Alejandro
> López who wrote:
> > > Jailbreaking tablets has been ruled illegal.
> > > http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=194954
> > > How long before we are banned by law from installing Linux on a
> computer
> > > that was originally sold with Windows ?
>
> > Who needs to jailbreak a phone with Android or linux such as de N900?
> Don't
> > buy Apple and you'll have no problem.
>
> What about a Linux-powered e-reader ?
>

Ooh! I bought one of those 4 years ago.
It was a cheap Chinese knockoff, low-end hardware even for the day. It was
running a stripped-down version of Ubuntu 8 for ARM.
It was slow, but it worked! A Linux e-reader! And it did many other things
too. Like play games, browse the web and when properly coaxed even play
videos.
The problem is that the battery no longer holds a charge, and the charger
broke. So it's pretty much a brick now. But I loved it while it lasted!


>
> Cheers,
>
> Ron.
> --
>               The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
>                                               -- Wm. Shakespeare
>
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>
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