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    > You tell them that if they want to use
    > hardware from companies like that, they should use Windows.

    But I wouldn't do that.

I wouldn't do either.  I would say, if they want to use hardware from
companies like that, they should help with the reverse-engineering
efforts.  Let's take a constructive approach!


