Screw Drivers and PDF Files

der Mouse mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA
Thu Jun 2 23:49:05 CDT 2005


> PC's can run either open source or closed source OS's.

Does Acrobat run under any of the open-source ones?  Is Acrobat itself
free (at least as-in-beer)?  And I'm still not about to sink my own
time into the rathole of sysadminning the machine, not with
closed-source software on it (even if the OS is open).

> I don't know of any classic computer that came out with open source
> DOS's (but a few open source monitors).

...so?  None of my machines, classic or not, run the OS they came with
(if any); I'm here for the hardware, not the software, side of things.
(When I have the OS, I have a copy of it archived, but I don't do
anything with them; they're against the day when I do find a reason to,
or for a putative someone else.)

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