On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 12:41:15AM -0500, The Anarcat wrote: > 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.
I remember a few year(s) back hearing that Microsoft's top man in China got commended for his success in distributing Windows and related software far and wide there -- he covertly encouraged people to pirate Microsoft products, thereby locking the officially approved Linux out of the market. -- hendrik > 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. The curse of compatibility then imposes costs on those who have reasons not to violate copyright. > > 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? Yes. > I know I didn't. And when things started to get complicated, I got a > free OS (FreeBSD), end of story. Moved to Linux in the mid-nineties, as soon as I figured out how to get it. > 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. Install Linux on them, and never use any of Apple's software. Then you won't need to reunbrick, because you never upgrade with Apple's stuff. Has enyone done this yet? Or has Apple found a way around this? -- hendrik _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
