On 01/08/18 16:16, Anonymous wrote:
The Natural Philosopher explained :
On 01/08/18 14:56, Mayayana wrote:
"The Natural Philosopher" wrote
| Â*Â*Â* Just as well. Your Surface as a Service probably
| isn't water-resistant. 
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| Seriously though, isn't notebook as a service what a chromebook is? Or
| smartphone as a service, android?
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| Indeed Liux itself is desktop as a service, except its free...It's all
| about where the line is drawn between stuff that is upgraded centrally
| and installed on your computer or upgraded cenrally and NOT
permanently
| stored on your computer, and if you actually care.
|
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Â*Â*Â* Linux? That's not really a desktop or a service. And as
you say, it's free. I don't know how you define a service
if it doesn't involve paying. Do you think of it as a service
because it updates itself without asking?
A service is something that does something useful.
So a maid who makes the bed is a service.
Linuxs does something useful. It is a service as much as it is
software. It is perhaps a service enabled by software much as the
bedmaking is a service enabled by a maid.
Â*My lawn mower would be a service with this explanation.
Â*Linux is NOT a service.Â* It is an OS that runs on my personally owned
machine.Â* Linux on my machine is my property.Â* A service is something
that is external.
Linix exists beyond my computers
A service is provided by someone or something that is
not owned by me.
Linux is provided by someone or somethimng that is not owned by me
A service does something for me and then leaves until
I call for it to serve me again.
Linux does someth9ing for nme and then leaves until I call for it to
serve me again.
Â* When I buy a computer, I buy the
hardware and software.
I dont. I buy the hardware.
I don't have to upate it, I can block MS
altogether, I don't have to connect it to the internet (except to
initially initialize the windows system), I don't have to do anything
per MS snoopy demands to make updates or otherwise connect my computer
to the web.
Â*Only when MS starts selling their OS as a service do I have to connect
to the internet so that MS can determine if I have forked over mega
dollars to continue to use their service (OS).
Well thats MS for you. Legalised ransomware. More fool you for buying it.
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