On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 18:20, Michael Halcrow wrote:
Howdy folks,
Yet another mind-numbing article from our friends at the Daily Universe:
http://newsnet.byu.edu/story.cfm/45400
Here is my response. Let's see if it gets accepted. :-) <snip>
What bothered me most about the article was the implication that all
software for windows was free, whereas you had to pay for it on
Macintosh. To me this indicates that students think that if you can
download it on Kazaa then it must be legal and right. This whole idea
really bothered me. Linux further complicates things for this ignorant
people as the OS itself and most apps are legally freely available. Anyay, I think piracy awareness might be a good thing to push to our
friends and neighbors. I may hate MS, but I cannot condone downloading
packages off of kazaa.
Michael
Good point-- any way we could briefly work this into the response?
Also, can any of you English experts confirm this: I heard once that "myriad" was an adjective, not a noun (as in "...and myriad other academic and business software packages" rather than "...and a myriad of other..."). I just checked on dictionary.com and it said both are correct, although many people do not consider the noun form as correct.
Lars
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