Naralas
December 15th, 2006, 05:07 AM
To be honest, I can use Windows XP. Infact its familiar and I enjoy it. I am glad my parents computer still runs it because using the official, and hitch-free MSN is nice (every aMSN skin alive is ugly, and so are all the fonts it uses), and using Starcraft on B.net and a few old games of mine are always refreshing.
I refuse to support it on my laptop and to contribute to Windows-based communities anymore because I hate capitalism. The idea that we can claim everyone is equal one moment and then give the freedom to earn wealth by putting others down. An example being every large company in the world. They don't drive the cars they drive (by the way: down with driving!) because they deliver a quality product at a fair price. They drive the cars they drive because they deliver the closest thing to quality they can get away with selling, in the most cost effective (and often exploitive) ways, without ever putting the price below what they can force you to pay for it for there own personal gain. Practically everyone in business does it, in USA its dubbed "The American Dream" and much like rape and murder, it undermines equality. However while rape and murder are illegal, being rich at the expense of others (and there is no other way, other than perhaps winning the Heart and Stroke lottery, which could put MORE of the money towards the actual patients if you ask me)
I hate excess profit of all kinds. Being "able" to exploit others (or as some call it "making money") does not mean you have earned any right to do so. The people you exploit are not either simply not as heartless, not as capable or not as ruthless as you (none of which you should be proud of, because its okay to be less capable and its commendable to be either or both of the others, no mater what hollywood anti-hero's and much music / MTV tell you) anyway, skipping over the part where a few people might blindly call me a communist (which seems to be the only rebuttal I have ever received on these grounds and it fails to disprove that I am simply supporting freedom, and seems to also misunderstand communism)
Anyway, off my explanatory rant and onto my problem. Google makes money. Lots of money.
But google has all the same pullfactors as Windows XP. Accept unfortunatly, Google is as stable as Linux and even RUNS ON UBUNTU SERVERS :(
Sooo what can I do?
I love Google Docs and Spreadsheets, I love GMail, I like there new webhosting, there new groups, there blog programs, there webbased Google Talk which sits on your e-mail (I dont use all of the above but they are well done and slick!) and I do not see an alternative to such a lovely all-in-one.
If I simply do not click the ads or buy anything from them, and stop advertising Google to other people is that enough to say I don't support them? Or must I boycott them? I am looking for ethical guidance, and please understand that you are to stubborn to change my mind in the idea that Google is unethical, so all I am asking is, do I need to stop using there services and find a new e-mail host? And if so, what runs nice and smooth? And what are alternatives to Google Dos and Spreadsheets? :-k
Sorry if I am a little opinionated. Sorry if my post is a little long. I understand to alot of people my opinions seem a little backwards but I hope I can count on a little understanding and reasonability, after all this is a linux community :)
I refuse to support it on my laptop and to contribute to Windows-based communities anymore because I hate capitalism. The idea that we can claim everyone is equal one moment and then give the freedom to earn wealth by putting others down. An example being every large company in the world. They don't drive the cars they drive (by the way: down with driving!) because they deliver a quality product at a fair price. They drive the cars they drive because they deliver the closest thing to quality they can get away with selling, in the most cost effective (and often exploitive) ways, without ever putting the price below what they can force you to pay for it for there own personal gain. Practically everyone in business does it, in USA its dubbed "The American Dream" and much like rape and murder, it undermines equality. However while rape and murder are illegal, being rich at the expense of others (and there is no other way, other than perhaps winning the Heart and Stroke lottery, which could put MORE of the money towards the actual patients if you ask me)
I hate excess profit of all kinds. Being "able" to exploit others (or as some call it "making money") does not mean you have earned any right to do so. The people you exploit are not either simply not as heartless, not as capable or not as ruthless as you (none of which you should be proud of, because its okay to be less capable and its commendable to be either or both of the others, no mater what hollywood anti-hero's and much music / MTV tell you) anyway, skipping over the part where a few people might blindly call me a communist (which seems to be the only rebuttal I have ever received on these grounds and it fails to disprove that I am simply supporting freedom, and seems to also misunderstand communism)
Anyway, off my explanatory rant and onto my problem. Google makes money. Lots of money.
But google has all the same pullfactors as Windows XP. Accept unfortunatly, Google is as stable as Linux and even RUNS ON UBUNTU SERVERS :(
Sooo what can I do?
I love Google Docs and Spreadsheets, I love GMail, I like there new webhosting, there new groups, there blog programs, there webbased Google Talk which sits on your e-mail (I dont use all of the above but they are well done and slick!) and I do not see an alternative to such a lovely all-in-one.
If I simply do not click the ads or buy anything from them, and stop advertising Google to other people is that enough to say I don't support them? Or must I boycott them? I am looking for ethical guidance, and please understand that you are to stubborn to change my mind in the idea that Google is unethical, so all I am asking is, do I need to stop using there services and find a new e-mail host? And if so, what runs nice and smooth? And what are alternatives to Google Dos and Spreadsheets? :-k
Sorry if I am a little opinionated. Sorry if my post is a little long. I understand to alot of people my opinions seem a little backwards but I hope I can count on a little understanding and reasonability, after all this is a linux community :)