On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 06:40:16 +1100 Stephen K�hn disseminated the following:
> > > Activists Urge Free Open-Source Software > > > > > > http://tinyurl.com/5hezf > > > > Now why would those poor starving people want to miss out on this?: > > > > http://weblog.infoworld.com/foster/2005/01/28.html#a209 > > It's not going to matter. MS Windows is going to get pirated no matter > what MS does, and it only strengthens the F/OSS stance. ...I think you missed the best part of the article, mate: "So we're not talking about people who were trying to rip off Microsoft. Instead, an awful lot of people who paid their money for Windows in good faith are going to discover that somebody along the line - a distributor, a reseller, an OEM -- cheated them. They are just as much victims of the counterfeiters as Microsoft. More actually, because they were in less of a position to defend themselves. Perhaps we should call them Windows' Genuinely Disadvantaged." *That's* what's going to drive people to F/OSS, the fact that not only do they have to contend with malicious script kiddies and the headaches *they* cause, but now MS itself is going to be giving 'honest' people headaches more than their OS already does (if that's possible). But wait, it get's better: http://www.vnunet.com/news/1160791 MS hasn't got a foot left to shoot off, they're up to a messy stump on both legs. Either that or Ballmer is some kind of millipede...hmmmmm :-))) -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 17:54:32 up 29 days, 6:34, 8 users, load average: 0.00, 0.22, 0.27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws. -- Amschel Mayer Rothschild, banker
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