It was stated: > > 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.
I don't think the person that made the free Windows software was necessarily refering to downloading illegal copies of software. Anyone that has ever visited download.com can testify that there are thousands of software titles for Windows that are free. Most of these are just little helper-type applications that are free because they aren't really marketable, but, nonetheless, they _are_ free and legit. Another reason I don't think they were referring to downloading commercial software is that you can find tons of Mac titles in the same places you can find illegitimate apps for your PC. If the person quoted in the Universe was into downloading stuff, and had tried it on both a Mac and PC, he would have had success either way and wouldn't have made the statement that showed up in the paper--at least not in reference to swashbuckling, anyway. Just my two cents. -Brent ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
