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   From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   In message , Jonathan N. Little   
    writes:   
   >Arlen George Holder wrote:   
   >> Hi Jonathan,   
   >>   
   >> It's _embarrassing_ that none of us know how Windows works, least of all   
   >> me.   
      
   While it's a truism that none of us knows how _all_ of Windows works,   
   there _are_ people who know how sections of it do - and taken as a   
   whole, we _do_. And by now, there are probably enough who are now   
   outside Microsoft that we - _as a whole_ - do know how it works, with   
   the exception of those bits that are to do with licencing/activation   
   etcetera.   
      
   I don't think it's _embarrassing_ as such, that no single individual   
   knows how all of it works: it's no different to any other complex   
   entity, such as a power station or even, these days, a car.   
   >   
   >That's the nature of proprietary software. The alternative is open   
   >source. This is why this is my only and last Winbox. All others I have a   
   >Linux.   
   >   
   I'm curious: given that Windows has now been around significantly longer   
   than the average or even extended life of a machine, as has Linux: if   
   "this" is your current machine, given your stated view of proprietary   
   software, why did you buy it when you did (alternatives would have been   
   available)?   
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   The voices of Radio 4 continuity and newsreading have been keeping me right   
   for as long as I can remember. I can call on a million different information   
   sources, but it doesn't make sense unti I've heard it from Peter, Harriet,   
   Charlotte and the rest.- Eddie Mair in Radio Times 10-16 November 2012   
      
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