On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 09:19:53PM -0500, Nick Sklav wrote: > Then Maybe all of us should have stopped pirating software earlier and > paid. When i say all of US i mean society in general. Thus none of these > companies would be so hard pressed to lock people in and force us to pay > if we did it willingly like it was back in the day of the early apple > computers ;)
I think you've got it backward: if the software is free, we don't need
to "pirate" it. They're locking us in not because they're afraid we'll
steal their *software*, it's because they're afraid we'll buy the other
guy's *hardware*.
I would daresay that Apple and Microsoft doesn't *really* care about
piracy: it provides them with the widest distribution network to install
their monopoly. As long as enough morons are ready to pay for their
stuff, it works. And for apple, it's probably even less a matter of
software licenses than cute gizmos and marketing.
Market penetration for Microsoft or Apple's software products (or Adobe's!
remember photoshop 7?) would be much lower if people would actually have
to buy this stuff...
Remember resedit? Did you pay for resedit? or MacPaint? Or wait, did
*you* buy your DOS operating system back in the days?
I know I didn't. And when things started to get complicated, I got a
free OS (FreeBSD), end of story.
I don't need their stinking lockin. I'm ready to buy their crappy
devices, but let me run my own shit, otherwise it's just a useless brick
we need to unbrick all the time. It's a waste of time and blocking the
march of human kind towards greater knowledge.
A.
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