hello everybody,
this is my first blog, so bear with me!

I got to thinking the other day, how many things you buy where the supplier has a say in what you do with it afterwards. For example, if you buy a car, you can do what you like with it (within the law!)
In fact getting help can be a problem in the first place.

Then I thought of windows and it was the opposite. You buy a copy and if you want to do anything different with it - new h/w etc. and microsoft are there telling you what you can and can't do. The desktop or laptop it is running on doesn't care and the supplier almost won't talk to you unless you want to buy a newer one. They don't care if you run windows, solaris, linux etc. or even if you just want a posh doorstop!

In case you wondered, I run linux(es) and re-install add stuff as and when I like.
( I do have an old windows system purely for sending MS doc files to people who have
problems reading O-Office files )