On Wednesday 05 March 2008 22:39, Puneet Lakhina wrote: >Moreover since I work in the software business, supporting piracy > would be a disservice to my own profession and its profits. >What do I do? Do I tell him what software piracy is, and expect him to >understand? I know some of the suggestions would be give him Linux. He > is knowledgable enough to understand whats linux and whats windows, > so if hes asking for windows, he knows what he wants (I assume :-) )
Surprisingly, if the friend can understand about the specs of the computer, doesn't he know that there *is* something called as software piracy? (FOSS world may not consider something like this, but I have to be in both the worlds to speak) If there is a possibility he doesn't know about software piracy, he should probably be asked to refer and find out about it. I believe, he should probably try and understand what Windows is, and how a software company like Microsoft "sells" the software as a product. Probably, he would get a (pirated) copy for some other source, but then you aren't directly responsible for it. (May be you are not at all). I assume, Freed.in this year was trying to build an ecosystem where FOSS products are nearly, if not equally, trying to equate with the needs of an end-user, apart from forming such a community that brings FOSS to the forefront. Often, my friends do ask for Windows software, and I often tell them, that I don't download any such software, and that I use Kubuntu Linux. I often recommend them a Linux distribution, but I don't force upon them. I often do find alternatives in a Linux distro to accomplish a task better, but don't try it anytime, so I may not be correct all the time. Darn! people expect .exe to run directly. And to recommend them wine could probably increase the probability to run viruses and possibly affect some shared windows drive :( (hmm, I'm supposed to do a lot of things, besides this, and ... hmm) _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
