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RE: [DotGNU]Re: Open Content Network: Free Software P2P
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James Mc Parlane |
Subject: |
RE: [DotGNU]Re: Open Content Network: Free Software P2P |
Date: |
Wed, 5 Jun 2002 14:53:03 +1000 |
Actually the best thing you could do for Microsoft is to pirate MS software
at an early stage of your education.
At any scale, as a student in a '1st world' country or an entire company
computerising in the '3rd world', a few years later you have a base of users
that know and love the MS interface and don't want to change.
If it was impossible to pirate MS software then I believe that good Free/OS
software would prevail.
So the best thing you could do for free software. Would be to make it harder
to pirate unfree software.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry Fitzgerald [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 2:15 AM
> To: Daniel Carrera
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [DotGNU]Re: Open Content Network: Free Software P2P
>
>
> Daniel Carrera wrote:
> >
> > What is the better thing to do for your fellow man? Is it
> to assist in
> > their fooling themselves into thinking that propietary
> software does not
> > come with strings attached? Certainly not.
> >
>
>
> Never was a truer word spoken. This, my friends, may be the
> ethical and
> operational solution to this argument:
>
> Don't copy proprietary software for friends because that
> undermines Free
> Software itself.
>
> Truly an awesome revelation and proven time and time again all around
> the world as MS has gained dominance by convincing people to
> ignore the
> EULA and break it to their heart's delight -- that is, until
> they decide
> to audit you. Then, the penalty for most is stiff fines and having to
> sign a contract agreeing to purchase X amount of MS software for the
> next Y years. It is a very difficult cycle to break.
>
> -Barry
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