"Ian Hilliard" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> amicus_curious wrote:
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>> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:2989548.xSgB8Uc5BC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Why Is Microsoft Threatening Linux?
>>>
>>> |
>>> | I have visited many parts of the world over the years where the locals
>>> | moaned about having to pirate a product because nobody would sell it
>>> | to them legitimately. And I have always believed that in some
>>> | particularly underserved areas around the world, such as Southeast
>>> | Asia, software piracy is tolerated to keep Linux from gaining a
>>> | foothold. It never ends.
>>> `----
>>>
>> It must be a source of never ending shame to the Linux community that,
>> where choice is clearly possible, users would rather go to the lengths
>> necessary
>> to steal Windows than to use Linux legitimately. How can they square
>> that
>> with their beliefs? They say Windows is only popular because the users
>> know of no other way, but when actually faced with a choice and in a
>> situation
>> biased against Windows, they still seem to choose Windows. It doesn't
>> add
>> up.
> Part of the human condition is the strange belief that if
> it didn't cost you it has no value.
Great theory but people would still rather go through the experience of
installing a pirated copy of Windows than to use linux. This has been proven
a million times over.
> This is why people have been so willing to pollute our
> air, rivers, lakes, oceans, open lands, etc...
No. Free has nothing to do with it. Corporate polluters do this because it's
cheaper than doing things the environmentally friendly way. It's about the
$$$$. People (individual polluters) do it because they are lazy pigs. It's
easier to throw the McDonalds wrappers out the window then to pull over and
find a dumpster. Free or not free isn't part of the equation.
> It is only now, where things have been destroyed that people are gradually
> coming to the realisation that the be best things in life are free.
What a nice cliche's - "The best things in life are free." Good health isn't
free, it requires excercise and a healthy diet. Quality food isn't free.
Despite what you may think clean air, water, etc aren't free either. They're
paid for indirectly.
> More importantly, without those free things, there is no life.
And without food or shelter or medicine there wouldn't be much life either.
In either case who gives a rats ass about lame cliche's. Fact is that people
all around the world would rather buy or use a pirated copy of Windows than
use lienux for free.
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