On Tuesday 27 Mar 2007 12:00:25 jtd wrote: > > My friend never had to pay > > a single paisa for any of those problems. And no, he didn't use any > > pirated versions. > > > > And who talked about me being paid for maintaining Linux boxen? You > > just conjured that up out of the thin air! And what policeman? > > Heck it's not u as in Mrugesh. It's u as in somebody who provides a > service - including the self provider - you have to account for the > resources expended on a thorughly useless activity.
Oops. Sorry. > Your friend (God bless him) is an honorable exception in using > licenced software. Hehehe, he did it because of the fear of being `caught', but yeah, he did buy the licenses. > The vast majority of cyber cafes dont care. I have > visited a hughe number of them right across the country. Their cost > is the cost of a cd and with the introduction of registers - where > every kid worth his mouse writes a fake name and address - the bribe > to the local cop who flies by for inkspection. With the cops added > responsibility of discovering piracy the cost of chaipani might go > up. Yup. > > And seriously, if you're going to offer a virus free system in > > exchange for losing customers, you've lost already. I don't > > understand why there is this almighty urge to get everyone to > > switch to FOSS. > > There isn't. Which is my point in the case of cybercafes. Stop wasting > your time trying to find justification of any kind to make the > cybercafe switch. Unless you drag them all to court and fine them the > cost + 150% of all software on the disk nothing's going to change. Yeah. The association making it compulsory for the cyber cafe owners to buy licenses to software will facilitate FOSS' entry greatly. > > P.S. If you do succeed with this (and contrary to what you might > > believe by now, I don't have a problem with Linux getting into > > cyber cafes), since freedom matters so much to you, use one of the > > absolutely free distros mentioned on the GNU site. > > He he. We are both shouting about the same thing. Wrong medicine for > the wrong people. Cyberbhai's wanna make a living and like all other > bhai's they dont care at whose expense. LOL, we actually agree for once. Cheers. -- ---------------------------------------- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net ----------------------------------------
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