Sacha Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Take a look around you. Would Microsoft Office have this much of a > lock-in if people were forced to buy legitimate copies from the > beginning? Would companies require Adobe Photoshop experience if > people who couldn't afford Adobe Photoshop used GIMP instead of > pirating it? Wouldn't people be encouraged to explore alternative > development environments if they couldn't get their hands on pirated > versions of things like Microsoft Visual Studio .NET?
It leaves us thinking, then, that piracy might actually be just a white elephant or Tasaday tribe that deliberately tries to get attention to itself so people ignore the problem of vendor lock-in... > Piracy doesn't hurt big companies. In fact, it _helps_ them by making > their products more popular until people _assume_ you have a copy of > the product, legitimate or not. I very much agree with that. Everywhere I go, in Manila or in Daet, there are just so many places where you can get the latest copy of XP (hell, even LongHorn betas) for as low as 50 pesos. Which most people don't think twice about. > Piracy hurts small companies. If you can buy the latest, most popular > games for little more than the cost of a meal, why buy a lesser-known > game by someone just starting out? Piracy hurts open source. If you > can get all the commercial software you want for nearly free, why try > free software? And that's the best argument for *not* using FOSS at the moment. It is very much an uphill battle, until there's something that kills the competition. > Help Microsoft stamp out piracy! Give friends a copy of Linux today! The best quote I've heard in a while! May I use this as a sig? -- ZAK B. ELEP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- <http://zakame.spunge.org> 1024D/FA53851D 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D -- Running Debian GNU+Linux testing/unstable. GnuPG signed mail preferred.
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