Let's pretend for a moment, that no one knows online if you're a dog posting. Once we do that. Perhaps we can put this to rest. Lastly, YOU, not ME, give my words power. If you choose to see these comments as an attack on you, then it is. If you choose to see these comments as supporting you, then they are. If you choose to ignore them, then you've won.

Sorry, but this is completely false. Child abuse is not machine recognizable, and many of the tools that claim to do it, but fail.

I remember what I was taught as a child... Two wrongs don't make a right...

It's not that the BSA is trying to save money, and avoid unpleasant surprises when patent trolls try to patent something. It's about the BSA making money. If you ever tried to buy a BSA Standard, you'll know just what I'm talking about. What is a standard? It is a set of "common sense" collaboration of best practices. If it is created by 50 people who all want to make a standard, and they decide to GIVE it away, then simply put a GPL or GNU license on it. In the doctrine of full disclosure, I'm a published author, and a creator of several standards that were provided freely, and are now the basis for many standards that are for purchase.

I agree with you. My eeePC 1000HE runs full blown Ubuntu, (not the netbook edition), and runs the full version of Open Office. I've only made two minor upgrades, a $28 memory upgrade to 2GB, and a more expensive upgrade to remove the 160GB HDD, and replaced it with a 128GB SDD.

Seriously, I can say, that most of the linux builds that I use, have everything I need out of the box... however, with Windows XP, I have to tweak the OS, then install all of the Office warez (because we HAVE to use them at work), and I haven't even talked about the editors, AV, Firewalls, Anti-Spyware, and other protection.

I'm not a MS Hater, but I do see the value in having a quick to setup system. Windows is suffering from the "Jack of all trades" syndrome, where it has to be everything to everyone... Linux doesn't. You can pick specific distro's to perform specific functions, and for the most part, they contain everything that you need.

That's my 2, YMMV.