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Re: Reasons to Buy Microsoft Vista at this time


Re: Reasons to Buy Microsoft Vista at this time




"stilicho" <nessuno@wigner.berkeley.edu> wrote in message

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> I just recently found out that my Ubuntu system completely and

> automatically bypasses region coding.


So you have installed the DVD code, the illegal stuff?


> This was quite a PITA for me,

> since I have some DVD's bought (legally, I might add


Why tell us it legal when you have installed illegal software to play them?

You may as well have downloaded the region free versions off the net.


> ) in Europe.  I

> can't play them on my Mac (haven't tried on a Windows machine but the

> issues are the same) because it only allows a maximum of 5 changes of

> region (that is, I can't play a mixture of European and US DVDs).  On

> Ubuntu---no problem!


Its no problem on windows either if you want to install illegal software

but at least we can play DVDs in one region legally while you can't on

ubuntu.


You really shouldn't have bought the legality into this thread.  ;-)


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