>Go Linux Why would I want to do that? That's for Windozers when they wake up, not for Mac users when they fall asleep.
(How much of that message did you actually read?) Keith >Keith Addison wrote: > > >>BEFORE he was extradited to the United States, Hew Griffiths, from > >>Berkeley Vale in NSW, had never even set foot in America. But he had > >>pirated software produced by American companies. > >> > >>Now, having been given up to the US by former justice minister Chris > >>Ellison, Griffiths, 44, is in a Virginia cell, facing up to 10 years in > >>an American prison after a guilty plea late last month. > >> > >>http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/05/06/1178390140855.html > >> > >> > > > >I guess by now we've all seen those heart-rending pictures of poor > >old Bill Gates sitting at the street corner in New York with his hat > >out on the pavement, poor feller, driven to pennilessness by > >dastardly software pirates. It's said 70 percent of all the software > >in use worldwide is pirated - but for these filthy criminals Bill > >could have had that money, instead of his paltry $20 billion, and he > >wouldn't be in this sad state that he's in now. Disgraceful - where's > >the law when you need it??? > > > >This is a little difficult to explain though: > > > >http://www.josephjenkins.com/books_humanure.html > >Joseph Jenkins, Inc. - The Humanure Handbook > > > >This is where Joseph Jenkins sells hard-copies of his popular > >Humanure Handbook online at his web store. Scroll down a little and > >you'll find these links: > > > >$25.00 US -- BUY NOW or read the book free on the web. > > > >And: > > > >Buy a Book Now > >Read the Book for Free > >BUY IT ON AMAZON.COM > > > >Read the Book for Free: > >http://jenkinspublishing.com/humanure_contents.html > >Joseph Jenkins, Inc. - Humanure Handbook Table of Contents > > > >Full text, free online. > > > >He's been doing that for at least seven years now, and he's not the > >only one. Yet the book's sold 30,000 copies, not bad going. No way to > >know, but I'd bet that if he didn't give it away for nothing online > >he wouldn't have sold so many. > > > >This crap about software piracy always reminds me of a restaurant > >owner I used to know in Hong Kong. I dropped in at his place for some > >coffee one afternoon during an economic crisis, the property market > >had crashed, quite a few folks went out of business and so on. > >"How're you doing?" I asked him. > > > >"Terrible!" he answered. "I'm losing 20,000 dollars a day!" [USD1=HKD8] > > > >It turned out that before the crash he'd been making $60,000 a day, > >but now he was only making $40,000 a day. > > > >But I wonder if so many copies of Windoze etc would have been sold > >but for all the pirating? > > > >Best > > > >Keith _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
