turmeric writes “As you may know, Open Source has always lagged far behind in many ‘consumer’ type of features. Among the most prominent are ‘power saving’ modes featured on many of the newer PCs. The subsystems, of hardware, BIOS, and operating systems, reduce the amount of power consumed by the computer when it is not in use, and thus save energy and the environment. However, it is clear that by eschewing these features as being for ‘lame desktop windoze lusers’, the open source community firmly establishes itself as standard American energy sucking social reprobates, unconcerned about the fate of the rest of the planet, and not caring one whit if the entire nation collapses just like California did last year. In this article I show just how much energy would be wasted if people did, in fact, switch to linux or BSD.”
Link: turmeric.freeshell.org
Category:
- Open Source
