Re: [Freedos-kernel] Information wants to be free

2004-08-23 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
Bom dia, Alain! I believe that being hated as much as a certain man is a matter of behaviour. I always use this analogy: Oracle's product are very expensive, but their custumers are content and Oracle is not hated at all. M$ make we feel bad, not because they charge, but because they force us

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Information wants to be free

2004-08-23 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 22--2004 22:39 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alain) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: PS: Currently I improve (cure) my nose, so I again delay my answer around a week. A Can someone translate that from Russian :) Don't worry, personal medical issues, which are now solved. Russian proverb: troubles

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Information wants to be free

2004-08-22 Thread Alain
tom ehlert escreveu: Do you really think after having sold thousand copies, I'm a good programmer, who deserves any dollar he makes, and after selling millions copies (and having charged money for it) I'll be suddenly an immoral man ? IMO it will (or propably 'would') still be the same thing: the

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Information wants to be free

2004-08-21 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
Hallo Bart and Tom, In this case, instead of pursuing a technical solution (Open Watcom is open source so can be changed) to reach a certain goal, you suggest I go for an illegal black-box solution, the cowards' way out. All right, I was a fly, now I'm a coward. Very well. Perhaps I'm something

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Information wants to be free

2004-08-21 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 21--2004 17:43 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luchezar Georgiev) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: LG I agree, but by buying a second-hand BC copy Bart wouldn't pay the Borland LG programmers in any way. Companies like RIAA and MPAA strive against reselling services (like one on Amazon).

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Information wants to be free

2004-08-21 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Luchezar, Not only Bulgarians. 3/4 of the world thinks so. And many Americans and Germans too, by the way. there is a german saying 'hey guys - eat shit! Billions of flies can't be wrong' So we're just billions of flies to you. Very well :) Otherwise it's a great anti-fashion

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Information wants to be free

2004-08-20 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 20--2004 20:45 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bart Oldeman) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: BO In this case, instead of pursuing a technical solution (Open Watcom is BO open source so can be changed) to reach a certain goal, you suggest I go BO for an illegal black-box solution, the cowards' way out. By

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Information wants to be free

2004-08-19 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
Hallo Tom, It's not worth a penny because it can be freely downloaded from Vietnam (I posted the URL here ;-) I know bulgarians think that way. Not only Bulgarians. 3/4 of the world thinks so. And many Americans and Germans too, by the way. It's still theft. It would be a theft if I *move* the

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Information wants to be free

2004-08-19 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Luchezar, It's not worth a penny because it can be freely downloaded from Vietnam (I posted the URL here ;-) I know bulgarians think that way. Not only Bulgarians. 3/4 of the world thinks so. And many Americans and Germans too, by the way. there is a german saying 'hey guys - eat