clarkie.mg's Journal: Reasons to boycott XP (v. 0.3.1 - 2001.10.25)

1. eXPensive though hardware prices dropped 2. eXPires if hardware changed. 2bis. bother : product activation even if reformat (virus ?) 3. ethiX P??? 4. Security 5. linuX Preferred 6. eXPosed DoS 7. eXPloit 8. eXPand ! your hardware ! 9. eXtra Profits seen : http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23009&cid=2477391 10. eXPerience Problems seen : http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23009&cid=2477239 11. eXtend Protect (monopoly) seen : http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23009&cid=2477270 12. eXPlain, eXPeriment, eXPlain, eXPlosion, eXPloration links : expires : http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/21981.html activation : http://www.arachnoid.com/boycott/ http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-201-7540650-0.html http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/newsroom/piracy/productactivationfaq.asp http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2818418,00.html http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2818238,00.html http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2815189,00.html http://slashdot.org/yro/01/09/02/1457200.shtml http://j-walk.com/ss/excel/activation.htm http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2817623,00.html http://salon.com/tech/col/rose/2001/10/08/file_monopoly/index.html DoS : http://grc.com/dos/winxp.htm , http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19332.html size : http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/13739.html