Hi, I am facing a dilemma that I am sure a lot of you have faced. I recently bough a dell laptop which came with Windows Vista Home Premium. So I obviously got the official windows vista cd. As a normal person i discussed the specs and the os with my friends. Now one of these friends today has asked me for the Windows Vista Home Premium CD so that he can try it out. I know its wrong in principal to give him the cd, its license terms deny it, and it would amount to software piracy. But if i dont give it, instead of understanding these principles, my friend would surely think Im just being mean, selfish.
Moreover since I work in the software business, supporting piracy would be a disservice to my own profession and its profits. What do I do? Do I tell him what software piracy is, and expect him to understand? I know some of the suggestions would be give him Linux. He is knowledgable enough to understand whats linux and whats windows, so if hes asking for windows, he knows what he wants (I assume :-) ) -- Puneet http://sahyog.blogspot.com/ Latest Post: javac -g _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
